You may want to experiment to find the settings that work best for you. You can access the Power Management screen (without running Setup) by pressing Fn F8, so you can adjust your settings at any time.

You should, however, exercise caution when changingthe Power Management and LOW Battery options. These features protect your data when your battery is about to run out.

For more information about how your power management features work, see “Using Power Management” in Chapter 2.

Using Instant On and Saving to Disk

The LOW Battery

option in Setup allows you

to select suspend

or Save to HDD, which

perform the following functions:

 

 

Mode

Description

 

 

Suspend

The computer continues to use a very

 

small amount of power. If you select

 

Suspend ad leave your system

 

suspended, the battery eventually runs

 

down and your data will be lost.

 

 

Save to HDD

Contents of your system and video

 

memory are saved to a special partition on

 

your hard disk drive. Even if your battery

 

runs down and the computer is turned off,

 

your data is protected.

 

 

 

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