for your computer wakeup circuitry and battery charger) is turned off. During save to disk mode, the DRAM and video memory are saved to the hard drive and are restored when your computer resumes operation.
You can press <Fn+F11> to manually place your computer into Rest mode.
When you use the <Fn+F11> key combination, your computer may postpone entering Rest mode during a critical operation, such as reading from or writing to the hard drive.
To resume to
Once all devices return to
When your computer enters or resumes from save to disk mode, screens appear indicating system status. These status screens do not appear when the computer enters or resumes from power on suspend.
Rest Mode Precautions
Observe the following precautions when using rest mode:
•Save all open files before you press <Fn+F11> to manually place your computer into Rest mode.
•If you purchased a new hard drive, make sure that you create a save to disk partition equal to the amount of system memory plus the amount of video memory plus 2 MB before you enable save to disk mode. See ” Creating a Save to Disk Partition” on page 67 for more information.
•Do not try to resume to
When your computer is in power on suspend or save to disk mode, do not connect or remove any devices (including PC Cards or memory modules) because you may damage the computer or resume to full power may fail. If a floppy disk is in the floppy drive, do not remove it or switch it with another disk. However, you can plug in the AC adapter if the resume to full power fails because of a low battery charge. When the
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