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If your motherboard has equipped with LM78 chipset, system will report an warning
message as both LM78s ( The on board and the one on ASMM) use the same I/O address
which is necessary for LDSM software that LM78 is located at I/O address of 0x295. The
basic idea for testing the LM78 function of ASMM is to disable the on-board LM78. The
ASR related function gets no influence of LM78 and need to do nothing for disable any
function. Currently, the BIOS cannot auto-detect the on-board LM78 and LM78 on
ASMM such that a hardware conflict occurs and results in a system warning. Future BIOS
will automatically disable the onboard LM78 if the ASMM is detected. There is a chip on
the motherboard at the rear edge about in the middle of the plug in slots called and LM78.
It's a chip made by National Instruments and it’s the LM78 that provides the circuitry for
monitoring the motherboard hardware such as fan RPM's and Temp. There are several
features:
Fan Status Monitoring and Alarm: To prevent system overheat and system damage, the
CPU fan and system fans are monitored for failure. Each fan can be set for its alarm
thresholds.
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 operation systems, such as Windows 95, Windows NT
and OS/2, require much more memory and hard drive space to present enormous user
interfaces and run large applications. The system resource monitor will warm the user
before the system resources are used up to prevent possible application crashes.
If you want to maintain mainboard, you must use jumper to disable Photo Sensor Chassis
Intrusion. If you do not disable Photo Sensor Chassis Intrusion, the capacity of battery will
be lost when you maintain mainboard.
1.3 ASMA Overview
ASUS System Monitoring Agent is a SNMP agent. This software enable the computer to
be managed by Network Management Station (NMSs) through Internet. ASUS System
Monitoring Agent can report the computer fan speeds, working voltage, system
temperature and chassis intrusion to NMS. ASUS System Monitoring Module can enable
or disable Automatic Server Restart (ASR) function from NMS through the Internet. ASR
is a function that can reboot the computer system automatically when the computer system
is hang. ASR and Chassis Intrusion functions must have ASMM card or its hardware
circuit/components installed on the computer system. However, the P2B-DS motherboard
already included ASR and Chassis Intrusion There are several manageable environments
for ASMA:
NT Performance Monitor - is a graphical tool for measuring the performance of your
own computer or other computers on a network. On each computer, you can view the
behavior of objects, such as processors, memory, cache, threads, and processes. Each
of these objects has an associated set of counters that provide information about
device usage, queue lengths, delays, and information used to measure throughput and