IBM PANEL1173-841

PANEL1173-841 User’s Manual

Phoenix-Award BIOS Utility

z ACPI Function

This item allows you to enable/disable the Advanced Configuration

and Power Management (ACPI). The function is always “Enabled”.

z ACPI Suspend Type

This item specifies the power saving modes for ACPI function. If

your operating system supports ACPI, such as Windows 98SE,

Windows ME and Windows 2000, you can choose to enter the

Standby mode in S1 (POS) or S3 (STR) fashion through the setting

of this field. Options are:

[S1(POS)] The S1 sleep mode is a low power state. In this

state, no system context is lost (CPU or chipset) and

hardware maintains all system context.

[S3(STR)] The S3 sleep mode is a lower power state where

the information of system configuration and open

applications/files is saved to main memory that remains

powered while most other hardware components turn off to

save energy. The information stored in memory will be used