Supero SUPER P3TDE6, User Manual

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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Introduction
1-2 Chipset Overview
The ServerWorks ServerSet
TM
III HE SL is a high-performance core logic
chipset that consists of a North Bridge and a South Bridge.
The North Bridge integrates the main memory subsystem and a dual channel
PCI bus and bridges the processor bus to a 64-bit PCI bus. The memory
subsystem consists of a two-way interleaved 4-DIMM configuration ac-
cessed over a 144-bit memory bus (most chipsets have a 72-bit memory
bus), which provides a significant boost in performance. The North Bridge
also packs and unpacks data for PCI accesses to reserve more processor
bandwidth for multiprocessor motherboards.
The South Bridge provides various integrated functions, including the PCI to
ISA bridge and support for UDMA33, security (passwords and system pro-
tection), Plug & Play, USBs, power management, interrupt controllers and
the SMBus.
1-3 Special Features
ATI Graphics Controller (P3TDER only)
The P3TDER has an integrated ATI video controller based on the Rage XL
graphics chip. The Rage XL fully supports sideband addressing and AGP
texturing. This onboard graphics package can provide a bandwidth of up to
512 MB/sec over a 32-bit graphics memory bus.
BIOS Recovery
The BIOS Recovery function allows you to recover your BIOS image file if
the BIOS flashing procedure fails (see Section 3-3).
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 Control setting in the Advanced BIOS Setup
section (Peripheral Device Configuration) to change this setting. The de-
fault setting is Always On.