Acer 710 Series manual Advanced Power Management

Heuristic Power Management

Advanced Power Management

This computer supports the APM standard designed to further reduce power consumption. APM is a power- management approach defined jointly by Microsoft and Intel. An increasing number of software packages support APM to take advantage of its power-saving features and allows greater system availability without degrading performance.

For more information about APM under Windows 98 or Windows 95, refer to your Windows 98 or Windows 95 user’s manual.

Note: If you enable heuristic power management in Setup without APM installed and enabled (true by default), the system time and date do not display the correct settings after the computer returns to normal operation from Standby or Hibernation mode. To update the time and date, reboot the computer. APM should be enabled to avoid this problem. Advanced Power Management greatly prolongs battery life. Use APM whenever possible.

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