Power
Management 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.
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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.
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Customized (the default) — allows you to set each timeout as
desired.
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Video Timeout 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
Timeout Sets an inactivity timeout period for the hard-disk drive. After the
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
Timeout Specifies how long the computer remains idle before before activating
suspend-to-disk (S2D) mode. Settings are Off, 30 Minutes, 20 Minutes,
10 Minutes, 5 Minutes, 2 Minutes, and 1 Minute.
NOTE: You can set this timeout only if Power Management is set to
Customized.
Battery Low
Suspend 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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