NEC VXi Windows NT Power Management Behavior, 3-26Using the BIOS Setup Utility, Standby, Default

Recognizing the Windows NT 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 NT 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
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.

Fn-Power1,2

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.

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

3-26 Using the BIOS Setup Utility