Chapter 1: Introduction
1-3 Recovery from AC Power Loss
BIOS provides a setting for you to determine 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 hit the power switch to turn it back on) or for it to automatically return to a power on state. See the Power Lost Con- trol setting in the BIOS chapter of this manual to change this setting. The default setting is Last State.
1-4 PC Health Monitoring
This section describes the PC health monitoring features of the C2SBA+II/C2SBA+/ C2SBA/C2SBE. The motherboard has an onboard System Hardware Monitor chip that supports PC health monitoring.
Onboard Voltage Monitors for the CPU Core, +1.8V, +3.3V, +3.3V standby, +5V, Vbat and ±12V
The onboard voltage monitor will scan these voltages continuously. Once a voltage becomes unstable, it will give a warning or send an error message to the screen. Users can adjust the voltage thresholds to define the sensitivity of the voltage moni- tor by using SuperO Doctor III.
1-5 ACPI Features
ACPI stands for Advanced Configuration and Power Interface. The ACPI specifica- tion defines a flexible and abstract hardware interface that provides a standard to integrate power management features throughout a PC system, including its hardware, operating system and application software. This enables the system to automatically turn on and off peripherals such as
In addition to enabling operating
Enhanced Power Management
The onboard ICH9/ICH9R chip provides advanced power management functions that will greatly improve the performance of various
