Intel PCM-6896 Computer Hardware User Manual


 
Watch Dog Timer
You can enable the system watch-dog timer, a hardware timer that
generates either an NMI or a reset when the software that it
monitors does not respond as expected each time the watch dog
polls it ( select the time period in a separate field ) The choice: 10
sec, 20 sec, 40 sec, 1 min, 2 min, 4 min.