TAG 10 manual Power Management, Suspend-to-Disk Suspend mode

Power Management

Your computer supports APM (Advanced Power Management) and ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) for power management. The power management feature allows you to reduce the power consumption for energy saving.

With an ACPI-compliant operating system such as Windows 98 and Windows 2000, power supply to different computer components is controlled on an as-needed basis. This allows maximum power conservation and performance at the same time.

In general, Windows’ power management works in this way:

What…	When…
Power to the hard disk is turned off	When the hard disk has been idle for a
	set period.
Power to the display is turned off	When the display has been idle for a
	set period.

The computer enters Standby mode. The hard disk and display are turned off and the entire system consumes less power.

When the entire system has been idle for a set period.

The computer enters Suspend mode.
	When you press the power button .
(See the next subsection for more
	*
information.)

* depends on your settings in Windows.

For detailed information on power management, see Windows’ Help.

Suspend-to-Disk (Suspend mode)

NOTE: If your operating system does not support ACPI, you can use the computer’s “Suspend-to-Disk” function, which is equivalent to Windows’ Hibernation function. (See “Power Menu” in Chapter 5 for more information.)

3-8 Managing Power