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PE Series
5.1 Using the Watchdog Timer
There are two watchdog timer implementations designed on this product,
the HW and POST watchdog timers. The watchdog timer circuit is in SuperIO
and can be controlled by a hardware jumper and BIOS setup menu through
the system BIOS for dierent boot phases.
Please refer to the table below for the dierent implementations of the
Watchdog Timer.
Watchdog timer Implementation Default Timeout
HW Watchdog Timer
This Watchdog Timer can prevent
the system from failing before BIOS
takeover. After the system is powered
on, the watchdog timer will start
automatically through the jumper
setting.
NOTE:
Refer to the HW WDT enable
jumper in the section
Motherboard Overview for
more information.
The default setting for this
jumper is set to HW WDT
enabled with a jumper cap
attached.
6 seconds.
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