Intel Desktop Board DX48BT2 Technical Product Specification

1.11.4 Alert Standard Format (ASF) Support

The board provides the following ASF support for PCI Conventional bus add-in LAN

cards:

• Monitoring of system firmware progress events, including:

⎯ BIOS present

⎯ Primary processor initialization

⎯ Memory initialization

⎯ Video initialization

⎯ PCI resource configuration

⎯ Hard-disk initialization

⎯ User authentication

⎯ Starting operating system boot process

• Monitoring of system firmware error events, including:

⎯ Memory missing

⎯ Memory failure

⎯ No video device

⎯ Keyboard failure

⎯ Hard-disk failure

⎯ No boot media

• Boot options to boot from different types of boot devices

• Reset, shutdown, power cycle, and power up options

• LAN Subsystem Software

LAN software and drivers are available from Intel’s World Wide Web site.