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SUPERSERVER 6026TT-HT(R)F/HIBX(R)F/HIBQ(R)F USER'S MANUAL

High Performance Event Timer

Select Enabled to activate the High Performance Event Timer (HPET) that produces

periodic interrupts at a much higher frequency than a Real-time Clock (RTC) does

in synchronizing multimedia streams, providing smooth playback and reducing

the dependency on other timestamp calculation devices, such as an x86 RDTSC

Instruction embedded in the CPU. The High Performance Event Timer is used

to replace the 8254 Programmable Interval Timer. The options are Enabled and

Disabled.

General WHEA Conﬁ guration

WHEA Support

Select Enabled to enable Windows Hardware Error Architecture (WHEA) support

which will provide a common infrastructure for handling hardware errors on

Windows platforms in order to reduce system crashes due to hardware errors and

improvesystem recovery and health monitoring. The default setting is Enabled.

IPMI Conﬁ guration (X8DTT-HF/-HIBXF/-HIBQF Only)

Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) is a set of common interfaces that

IT administrators can use to monitor system health and to manage the system as a

whole. For more information on the IPMI speciﬁ cations, please visit Intel's website

at www.intel.com.

Status of BMC

Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) manages the interface between system

management software and platform hardware. This is an informational feature which

returns the status code of the BMC micro controller.

IPMI Firmware Revision

This item indicates the revision number of the current IPMI Firmware.