Special Features; Recovery From Ac Power Loss; System Health Monitoring; Fan Status Monitor With Firmware Control - Supermicro X10DAL-i User Manual

X10DAL-i Motherboard User's Manual
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Special Features

Recovery from AC Power Loss

The Basic I/O System (BIOS) provides a setting that determines how the system will
respond when AC power is lost and then restored to the system. You can choose for
the system to remain powered off (in which case you must press the power switch
to turn it back on), or for it to automatically return to the power-on state. See the
Advanced BIOS Setup section for this setting. The default setting is Last State.
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System Health Monitoring

This motherboard has an onboard Hardware Monitor Controller that supports sys-
tem health monitoring, and it will scan the following onboard voltages continuously:
1.05V, 1.2V, 1.5V, +3.3V, 3.3VSB, +5V, +5V Standby, +12V, chipset, memory, and
battery voltages. Once a voltage becomes unstable, a warning is given, or an error
message is sent to the screen. The user can adjust the voltage thresholds to define
the sensitivity of the voltage monitor.

Fan Status Monitor with Firmware Control

The onboard Hardware Monitor Controller can check the RPM status of a cooling
fan.

Environmental Temperature Control

The Hardware Monitor Controller monitors the CPU temperature in real time and
will turn on the thermal control fan whenever the CPU temperature exceeds a
user-defined threshold. Once it detects that the CPU temperature is too high, it will
automatically turn on the thermal fan control to prevent the CPU from overheating.
The onboard chassis thermal circuitry can monitor the overall system temperature
and alert the user when the chassis temperature is too high.
Note: To avoid possible system overheating, please be sure to provide
adequate airflow to your system.

System Resource Alert

This feature is available when used with SuperDoctor® 5, which is a system health
monitoring software program used to notify the user of certain system events.
For example, you can configure SuperDoctor 5 to provide you with warnings
when the system/CPU temperatures, CPU voltages and fan speeds go beyond
a predefined range.
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