Chapter 3 - Battery and Power Management
Suspend Mode
Deactivates one or more of Meridian’s internal components, letting you conserve power (battery or AC). You can customize Suspend Mode to save power in several ways, letting you choose what shuts down as well as when. The Meridian 850 has four settings for Suspend Mode: CPU, Video, Disk, and Global. Your system can deactivate any one of these areas when it senses no activity there, or have all of them power down (“Global”) when no activity is detected an any one of the main system components.
CPU Timeout
The system runs at full speed, but the Pentium CPU slows down after sensing no CPU activity for the specified number of seconds.
Video Timeout
Video shuts down after a specified number of minutes without video activity.
Disk Timeout
The hard disk spins down after a specified number of minutes without any hard disk accesses within that period.
Global Timeout
Turns off all devices except memory (Global Suspend) if no activity is sensed for the specified number of minutes.
Monitor Video Activity
Prevents power saving modes from engaging while there is any video activty, including screen savers.
Warning!
While in Suspend Mode, the system still draws a small amount of power. If you leave your system in Suspend mode for a long time, the battery will eventually run down.
In Suspend Mode, system clock speed is lowered to 0 MHz and the green power/suspend light blinks continuously. Push and hold the suspend/ resume button for about one second to enter or cancel suspend mode.
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