SUPER MICRO Computer 1.2b Expansion Slots, PC Health Monitoring, Acpi Features, Onboard I/O

Chapter 1: Introduction

Expansion Slots

•Three PCI-E 2.0 x8 slots (Slot 1/Slot 3/Slot7)

•Two PCI-E 2.0 x16 slots (Slot 2/Slot 6)

•One PCI-E 2.0 x4 (in x8) slots (Slot 5)

•One PCI-E 2.0 x8 (in x16) slots (Slot 4)

BIOS

•32 Mb AMI SPI Flash ROM

•PCI 2.2, ACPI 1.0/2.0/3.0, Plug and Play (PnP), DMI 2.3, USB Keyboard sup- port, and SMBIOS 2.3

PC Health Monitoring

•Onboard voltage monitors for CPU0 Vcore, CPU1 Vcore, 1.5V, 5V, 5VSB, 12V, -12V, 3.3Vcc, 3.3VSB, VBAT and Vtt

•Fan status monitor with firmware control

•CPU/chassis temperature monitors

•Platform Environment Control Interface (PECI) ready

•Thermal Monitor 2 (TM2) support

•CPU fan auto-off in sleep mode

•CPU slow-down on temperature overheat

•Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) Fan Control

•CPU thermal trip support for processor protection, power LED

•Power-up mode control for recovery from AC power loss

•Auto-switching voltage regulator for CPU cores

•System overheat/Fan Fail LED Indicator and control

•Chassis intrusion detection

•System resource alert via Supero Doctor III

ACPI Features

•Slow blinking LED for suspend state indicator

•Main switch override mechanism

•ACPI Power Management

•Keyboard Wakeup from Soft-off

Onboard I/O

•Intel ICH10R supports six SATA2 ports (with RAID0, RAID1, RAID10, RAID5 supported in the Windows OS Environment, and RAID0, RAID1, RAID10 for Linux Platforms) (Note 1)

•Intel 82576 Gigabit Ethernet controllers supports Giga-bit LAN1/2 ports

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