6 Managing power
Your computer can operate on either battery power or external power. When the computer is only running on battery power and an AC power source is not available to charge the battery, it is important to monitor and conserve the battery charge. Your computer supports power plans to manage how your computer uses and conserves power so that you can balance computer performance with power conservation.
Initiating Sleep and Hibernation
Microsoft® Windows has two
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NOTE: If you want to initiate Hibernation manually, you must enable Hibernation using Power Options in Windows Control Panel. For more information, see Enabling and Exiting User- Initiated Hibernation on page 36.
CAUTION: To reduce the risk of possible audio and video degradation, loss of audio or video playback functionality, or loss of information, do not initiate Sleep while reading from or writing to a disc or an external media card.
NOTE: You cannot initiate any type of networking connection or perform any computer functions while the computer is in the Sleep state or in Hibernation.
Intel Rapid Start Technology (select models only)
For select models, the Intel Rapid Start Technology (RST) feature is enabled by default. Rapid Start Technology allows your computer to resume quickly from inactivity.
Rapid Start Technology manages your
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◦After 2 hours of inactivity when the computer is in Sleep state.
◦When the battery reaches a critical level.
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