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Utilities
5.2
Hardware Doctor Utility
This section introduces the Hardware Doctor Utility that comes with the CPU
board in conjunction with the onboard hardware monitoring function. The
section describes the functions of the utility.
Hardware Doctor is a self-diagnostic system for PC’s and must be used
with ITE IT8705 IC series products. It helps to protect the PC Hardware by
monitoring several critical items including Power Supply Voltage, CPU Fan
speed, and CPU & System temperature. These items are important to the
operation of the system; errors may result in permanent damage to the PC.
If any of the mention items are out of its normal operation range, a warning
message will appear and alert the user to take appropriate measures to
correct the abnormality.
The Hardware Doctor utility supports Windows 98 and Windows NT. The
software comes with the ADLINK CD and is located under the directory:
X:\Utility\HWDoctor\I2C\WIN98
and
X:\Utility\HWDoctor\I2C\NT4.
To install the Hardware Doctor utility, execute HI2C-98.exe or HI2C-NT.exe
respectively under Windows 98 or Windows NT.
For a detail user's manual, refer the HWDoctor.PDF file under
X:\Utility\HWDoctor\WIN98\W8627\.
5.3
Intel Preboot Execution Environment (PXE)
The cPCI-6830 series supports Intel Preboot Execution Environment (PXE),
which provides the capability of boot-up or executing an OS installation
through the Ethernet ports. There should be a DHCP server in the network
with one or more servers running PXE and MTFTP services. It could be a
Windows NT or Windows 2000 server running DHCP, PXE and MTFTP
service or a dedicated DHCP server with one or more additional server
running PXE and MTFTP service. This section describes the major items
required for building a network environment with PXE support.
1. Setup a DHCP server with PXE tag configuration.
2. Install the PXE and MTFTP services
3. Make boot image file on PXE server (that is the boot server).
4. Enable the PXE boot function on the client computer.
For more detailed information, please refer to pdkrel30.pdf under the
directory
X:\Utility\PXE_PDK.
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