NEC VX manual Recognizing the Windows 95 Power Management States, Using the BIOS Setup Utility

Windows 95 Power Management States

APM uses different levels or states of power management. These power management states occur automatically, based on your system’s default settings, or manually, when invoked. Settings are configured to occur while on battery power or on AC power.

The Windows 95 APM power management states include:

!Standby — manages power at the lowest level by shutting down the LCD, hard disk drive, and CPU.

!Suspend — also known as Save-to-RAM (STR), Suspend mode manages power by saving your current working environment to memory and shutting down most system devices. Conserves more power than Standby mode.

!Save-to-file (STF) — also known as save-to-disk, STF mode manages power by saving the current working environment to an area on your hard disk, then powering off your system. Conserves the most battery power.

Recognizing the Windows 95 Power Management States

It is important to recognize your system’s behavior when in each of these power management states. The following table describes the system behavior for each power management state.

Windows 95 Power Management Behavior

	Standby	Suspend (STR)	Save-to-File (STF)
Default	4 Minutes	10 minutes after Standby	30 minutes after Suspend1,3
Setting
Manually	Fn-F4	Press Power button for less	Fn-Power1,2
invoke		than 4 seconds2 or
		Click Start, Suspend

System	LCD panel is blank.	LCD panel is blank.
behavior	Status LED lights	Status LED blinks green.
	green.	Progress bar indicates that
		current working environment
		saved to memory.
Resume	Press any key	Press Power button.
		Progress bar appears during
		process.

LCD panel is blank.

Status LED turns off.

Progress bar indicates that current working environment saved to hard disk.

Press Power button.

Progress bar appears during process.

1Must configure Suspend Option in BIOS as STF.

2.Must configure System Switch in BIOS as Sleep button.

3Standby when there is only 3% power remaining in the system.

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