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- Date:
- Sunday , November 02, 2003
- Author:
- Morry Teitelman
- Editor:
- Kyle Bennett
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ABIT KV8-MAX3
As ABIT’s flagship AMD board, the KV8-MAX3 combines the VIA K8T800 chipset with ABIT’s own OTES and uGuru technologies. This MAX series board serves up support for AMD's Athlon64 754-pin CPU.
BIOS (continued)
The PC Health Status menu is divided in to a number of submenus: Temperature Monitoring, Voltage Monitoring, Fan Speed Monitoring, and FanEQ Control.
The Temperature Monitoring submenu contains real time output of the system monitored temperatures, as well as options to force system response based on configured temperature thresholds. The CPU Shutdown Temperature allows for user configuration of a system shutdown temperature threshold for the CPU. If the CPU temperature goes above the configured threshold, the BIOS automatically shuts down the system. The shutdown temperature threshold can be set to a maximum of 100 C. The CPU Alarm Temperature controls the CPU warning temperature threshold. It the CPU exceeds the preset temperature, the BIOS emits an alarm through the on board speaker. Amazingly enough, the shutdown threshold temperature can be set higher than the warning temperature. On most other boards, the reverse is true which makes very little sense from a monitoring perspective.
The Voltage Monitoring submenu contains system voltage statistics for all bios monitored system voltages, including the CPU, DDR, HyperTransport, and AGP voltages. The Fan Speed Monitoring submenu contains speed statistics for fans connected to the various BIOS monitored fan headers, as well as a system shutdown option should the fan connected to the CPUFAN1 header have a hardware failure event.
The FanEQ Control submenu contains options for custom configuration of voltage output to the CPUFAN1, NBFAN1, and SYSFAN1 headers based on user configured temperature thresholds. The three fan headers are each tied to a BIOS monitored temperature: the CPU Temperature ties to the CPUFAN1 header, the System Temperature ties to the NBFAN1 header, and the PWM temperature ties to the SYSFAN1 header. The FanEQ Control Temp. High option sets the upper temperature threshold for the header. If the tied item goes above the temperature upper limit, the amount of voltage selected within the FanEQ Fan Voltage high option is fed to the selected header. The same thing goes for the FanEQ Control Temp. Low. If the tied item’s temperature remains between the high and low temperature, than the voltage set within the FanEQ DC Fan Voltage Low option is fed to the selected header.