Green PC options (continued)

Option

Settings

Description

 

 

 

System Suspend

2 minutes*

Sets the time period of system

Timer

4 minutes

inactivity (following any Doze

 

8 minutes

and Standby periods that are

 

16 minutes

set) after which the system

 

32 minutes

enters Suspend mode or allows

 

64 minutes

you to disable entry into

 

128 minutes

Suspend mode

 

256 minutes

 

 

512 minutes

 

 

Disabled

 

 

 

 

VGA with Power

VESA DPMS

Selects the method the VGA

Down feature

Standard

chip uses to enter Doze mode

 

None *

 

 

 

 

Non_SMI CPU

Generate IRQlO *

Allows the ISA bus bridge

support

Generate lRQl5

controller to replace the System

 

 

Management Interrupt (SMI)

 

 

request when a non-system

 

 

management mode CPU is

 

 

used, for instance, an Intel® DX,

 

 

SX, or DX2 processor

 

 

 

IDE Hard Disk

Disabled

Sets the time period of hard disk

Standby Timer **

1 to 15 minutes

drive inactivity after which the

 

15 minutes *

hard disk enters Standby mode

 

 

or allows you to disable the

 

 

hard disk standby timer

 

 

 

System enters

On

Enables or disables checking of

Doze/Standby

Off *

video activity to determine

modes by VGA

 

whether the system enters a

access event

 

power-saving mode

 

 

 

System wakeup

On*

Selects the SMI access events

from Suspend

Off

from which the system exits

modes by (list of

 

Suspend modes: you can set

13 sources of SMI

 

each type of event to On or Off

access)

 

 

L

 

 

*Default setting

**Some hard disk drives do not support a low-power standby mode. Also, the delay caused by the hard disk drive returning to active mode may cause errors in some applications. If you have problems, you may want to disable the Hard Disk Standby Timer option (Disabled is the default setting).

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