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Using Your Green PC Features

Your computer includes features that lower the power usage of the microprocessor and other components when the system has been inactive for a selected period of time. Using the SETUP program, you can customize inactivity timers for three

power-saving modes: Doze, Standby, and Suspend. Each of the three modes provides progressively increased levels of power conservation.

You can also customize an individual Standby timer for the hard disk drive. If you have an Energy Star compliant monitor, your computer places the monitor in power-saving modes too. See “Using the Green PC Features” in Chapter 2 for information on customizing these options.

The power-saving operations performed by your computer in each of the power-saving modes are summarized in the table below.

Power-saving	modes
Mode		Power-saving operations
Doze		The processor slows down
Standby		The processor speed slows further and the monitor
(disabled by		screen goes blank (the monitor is placed in a low
default)		power consumption mode only if it is Energy Star
		compliant)
Suspend		The processor clock stops, the hard disk drive(s) power
		down, and the monitor screen goes blank (the monitor
		is placed in a low power consumption mode only if it is
		Energy Star compliant)
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Some processors do not support power-saving modes; in these cases only the hard disk drive and monitor can take advantage of your green PC features.

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