
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) | |
Default | 4 Minutes | 10 minutes after Standby | 30 minutes after Suspend1,3 |
Setting |
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Manually | Press Power button for less | |
invoke |
| than 4 seconds2 or |
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| Click Start, Suspend |
System | LCD panel is blank. | LCD panel is blank. |
behavior | Status LED lights | Status LED blinks green. |
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| green. | Progress bar indicates that |
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| current working environment |
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| saved to memory. |
Resume | Press any key | Press Power button. |
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| Progress bar appears during |
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| 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.