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System Setup Options: Dell Latitude LS Portable Computers User's Guide

Power Management

Video Timeout

Allows you to select from three power management timeout strategies:

●Maximum Battery Life — conserves the greatest amount of system power; sets Video Timeout, Hard Disk Timeout, and Auto Suspend Timeout to 2 minutes each.

●Maximum Performance — conserves power but allows better system performance; sets Video Timeout to 10 minutes, Hard Disk Timeout to 5 minutes, and Auto Suspend Timeout to 10 minutes.

●Customized (the default) — allows you to set each timeout as desired.

Sets an inactivity timeout period for the keyboard, touch pad, and PS/2 mouse. After the specified period of inactivity (if one is set) the display and backlight power down. The display and backlight power up again at the first attempt to access the keyboard, touch pad, PS/2 mouse, or display memory. Settings are Off, 30 Minutes, 20 Minutes, 15 Minutes, 10 Minutes, 5 Minutes, 2 Minutes.

	NOTE: You can set this timeout only if Power Management is set to
	Customized.
Hard Disk	Sets an inactivity timeout period for the hard-disk drive. After the
Timeout	specified period of inactivity (if one is set) the hard-disk spindle motor
	powers down. The motor starts up again at the first attempt to access the
	hard-disk drive. Settings are Off, 30 Minutes, 20 Minutes, 10 Minutes,
	5 Minutes, and 2 Minutes.
	NOTE: You can set this timeout only if Power Management is set to
	Customized.
Auto Suspend	Specifies how long the computer remains idle before before activating
Timeout	suspend-to-disk (S2D) mode. Settings are Off, 30 Minutes, 20 Minutes,
	10 Minutes, 5 Minutes, 2 Minutes, and 1 Minute.

Battery Low Suspend

NOTE: You can set this timeout only if Power Management is set to

Customized.

Sets the computer to enter suspend (or standby) mode when the battey is low. Options are Enabled (the default) and Disabled. Disabled turns off the low-battery suspend function, but the Auto Suspend Timeout setting is still operative.

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