Themis RES-12XR3-S, Installation Manual

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Overview and Specifications
Special Features
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In addition, the 5500 platform also supports a wide range of RAS (Reliability, Avail-
ability and Serviceability) features. These features include memory interface ECC,
x4/x8 Single Device Data Correction (SDDC), Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC),
parity protection, out-of-band register access via SMBus, memory mirroring, mem-
ory sparing, and Hot-plug support on the PCI-Express Interface.
1.3.1 Main Features of the 5500/5600 Series Processor
and the 5500 Chipset
• Four processor cores in each processor with 8MB shared cache among cores.
• Two full-width Intel QuickPath interconnect links, up to 6.4 GT/s of data transfer
rate in each direction.
• Virtualization Technology, Integrated Management Engine supported.
• Point-to-point cache coherent interconnect, Fast/narrow unidirectional links, and
Concurrent bi-directional traffic.
• Error detection via CRC and Error correction via Link level retry.
1.4 Special Features
1.4.1 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 press the power switch to turn it back
on) or for it to automatically return to a power-on state. See the Advanced BIOS
Setup section to change this setting. The default setting is
Last State .
1.5 PC Health Monitoring (w/SDII or SDIII)
This section describes the PC health monitoring features of the X8DAL-3/X8DAL-i.
All have an onboard System Hardware Monitor chip that supports PC health moni-
toring via SuperO Doctor II or III. An onboard voltage monitor will scan these
onboard voltages continuously: Vcore1, Vcore2, 1.5V, 5VDD, 5VSB, 12V, -12V,
3.3Vcc, 3.3VSB, VBAT and Vtt. Once a voltage becomes unstable, a warning is