Supero SUPER P6SWA, User'S And Bios Manual

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S
UPER P6SWA/P6SWD
Manual
1-14
Introduction
Firmware Hub (FWH)
The FWH is a component that brings added security and manageability to
the PC platform infrastructure. This device includes an integrated Random
Number Generator (RNG) to enable stronger encryption, digital signing and
security protocols. The FWH stores the system BIOS and video BIOS,
which eliminates a redundant nonvolatile memory component.
Suspend to RAM (STR)
When the system goes into a sleep state, power is removed from most of
the system components but can remain supplied to RAM to quickly restore
the system to its previous state of operation. Because system restoral
happens in only ~5 seconds, applications that were open before the sleep
state can reopen for immediate access. In STR, all data in system memory
is stored in RAM when the system is suspended and system power is
turned off (the power supply fan also shuts off). You must be running
ACPI for this feature to take effect. See page 1-16 for details on initiating
ACPI. All drivers and add-on cards must be ACPI supported for STR to
function. See page 4-15 for the STR BIOS setting.
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 Loss Control setting in BIOS on page 4-20 of this
manual to change this setting. The default setting is Always OFF.
1-3 PC Health Monitoring
This section describes the PC health monitoring features of the SUPER
P6SWA/P6SWD. Both have an onboard System Hardware Monitor chip that
supports PC health monitoring.
Seven Onboard Voltage Monitors for the CPU Core, Chipset
Voltage, +3.3V,
±±±±±
5V and
±±±±±
12V
The onboard voltage monitor will scan these seven 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