BIOS Setup Utility

SY-5SSM & SY-5SSM/5

3-4.3 PM Events

PM Events

HDD Ports

Activity

 

Setting

Description

Note

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Disabled

 

 

 

 

Enabled

When set to Enabled (default), any

Default

 

 

 

event occurring at a HDD (serial) port

 

 

 

 

will awaken a system which has been

 

 

 

 

powered down.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

COM Ports Activity

LPT Ports Activity

VGA Activity

Disabled

 

Enabled

When set to Enabled (default), any

Default

 

 

 

event occurring at a hard or floppy drive

 

 

 

 

port will awaken a system which has

 

 

 

 

been powered down.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Disabled

 

 

 

 

Enabled

When set to Enabled (default), any

Default

 

 

 

event occurring at a LPT (printer) port

 

 

 

 

will awaken a system which has been

 

 

 

 

powered down.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Disabled

 

Default

 

 

Enabled

When set to Enabled (default), any

 

 

 

 

event occurring at VGA will awaken a

 

 

 

 

system which has been powered down.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The IRQ’ s, Interrupt ReQuests, which can be exempted much as the COM ports and LPT ports above can. When an I/O device wants to gain the attention of the operating system, it signals this by causing an IRQ to occur. When the operating system is ready to respond to the request, it interrupts itself and performs the service.

When set Enabled, activity will neither prevent the system from going into a power management mode nor awaken it.

IRQ [3-7,9-

Disabled

 

 

15], NMI

Enabled

 

Default

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SOYO SY-5SSM/5 manual PM Events HDD Ports Activity Setting Description, IRQ 3-7,9 Disabled 15, NMI Enabled Default

SY-5SSM, SY-5SSM/5 specifications

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