Chipset:
Northbridge: Intel G31 Express
Southbridge: Intel ICH7
BIOS Features:
Intel BIOS (resident in the SPI Flash device)
Support for Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI), Plug and Play, and SMBIOS
Instantly Available PC Technology:
Support for PCI Local Bus Specification Revision 2.3
Support for PCI Express Revision 1.0a
Suspend to RAM support
Wake on PCI, RS-232, front panel, PS/2 devices, USB ports, LAN, and PCI Express
Hardware Monitoring and Fan Control:
Fan speed control controllers and sensors integrated into the legacy I/O controller
Remote thermal diode sensor for ambient temperature sensing
Thermal sensors in the processor, 82G31 GMCH, and ICH7
Power supply monitoring of five voltages (+5 V, +12 V, +3.3 VSB, +1.25 V, and +VCCP) to detect levels above or below acceptable values
Thermally monitored closed-loop fan control, for all three fans, that can adjust the fan speed or switch the fans on or off as needed
Power Management:
Software support through Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI)
Hardware support:
- Power connector
- Fan headers
- LAN wake capabilities
- Instantly Available PC technology
- Wake from USB
- Power Management Event signal (PME#) wake-up support
- Wake signal wake-up support
- +5V standby power indicator LED
ACPI Features:
Plug and Play (including bus and device enumeration)
Power management control of individual devices, add-in boards (some add-in boards may require an ACPI-aware driver), video displays, and hard disk drives
Methods for achieving less than 15-watt system operation in the power-on/standby sleeping state
A Soft-off feature that enables the operating system to power-off the computer
Support for multiple wake-up events
Support for a front panel power and sleep mode switch
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