Asus 820E - Manual (Page 11)

ASUS CUC2 User’s Manual 11
2. FEATURES
2. FEA
TURES
Intelligence
2.1.4 Intelligence
• Fan Status Monitoring and Alarm: To prevent system overheat and system
damage, the CPU, power supply, and system fans can be monitored for RPM
and failure. All the fans are set for its normal RPM range and alarm thresholds.
• Temperature Monitoring and Alert: To prevent system overheat and system dam-
age, this motherboard supports processor thermal sensing and auto-protection.
• Voltage Monitoring and Alert: System voltage levels are monitored to ensure
stable current to critical motherboard components. Voltage specifications are
more critical for future processors, so monitoring is necessary to ensure proper
system configuration and management.
• System Resources Alert: Today’s operating systems, such as Windows 98/
Millenium, Windows NT/2000, and OS/2, require much more memory and hard
drive space to present enormous user interfaces and run large applications. The
onboard hardware ASUS ASIC in conjunction with either the bundled ASUS
PC Probe or Intel LDCM will warn the user before the system resources are
used up to prevent possible application crashes. Suggestions will give the user
information on managing their limited resources more efficiently.
• Dual Function Power Button: Through BIOS, the power button can be defined
as the “Stand by” (a.k.a. Suspend or Sleep) button or as the Soft-Off (see ATX
Power / Soft-Off Switch Lead in 3.8 Connectors for more information) button.
Regardless of the setting, pushing the power button for more than 4 seconds will
enter the Soft-Off mode.
• Remote Ring On (requires modem): This allows a computer to be turned on
remotely through an internal or external modem. With this benefit on-hand, users
can access any information from their computers from anywhere in the world.
• Message LED (requires ACPI OS support): Message LEDs now act as infor-
mation providers. Through the way a particular LED illuminates, the user can
determine if a message has been received from a fax/modem. A simple glimpse
provides useful information to the user. This function requires ACPI OS and
driver support.
• Peripheral Power Up: Keyboard or Mouse power up can be enabled or dis-
abled through BIOS setup to allow the computer to be powered ON using your
keyboard or mouse click.