MSI ATX Mainboard MS-6775 (v1.x) manual Power Management Features, ACPIStandbyState

MS-6775 ATX Mainboard

Power Management Features

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S3-related functions described in this section are available only when your BIOS supports S3 sleep mode.

ACPIStandbyState

This item specifies the power saving modes for ACPI function. If your operat- ing system supports ACPI, such as Windows 98SE, Windows ME and Win- dows 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 main-
S3/STR	tains all system context.
	The S3 sleep mode is a lower power state where the infor-
	mation 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 to restore
Auto	the system when a “wake up” event occurs.
	BIOS determines the best ode automatically.

Call VGA BIOS at S3 Resuming

Selecting Enabled allows BIOS to call VGA BIOS to initialize the VGA card when system wakes up (resumes) from S3 sleep state. The system resume time

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