Lanner IAC-H488 Series, User Manual

Chapter3 BIOS Setup

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User’s Manual 

3.6   Power Management Setup 

 
The “Power Management Setup” controls the CPU card‘s “Green” features.  When you select the  

“POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP” on the main program, the screen display will appears as: 
 

Power Management Setup Screen 
 

AMIBIOS SETUP – POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP 

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Power Management /APM 

Enabled 

   Available Options: 

***Select Power Down Mode** 

     Disabled 

Video Power Down Mode 

Stand By   

f

Enabled  

Hard Disk Power Down Mode 

Stand By   

***Select Time Out Mode*** 

Doze Time Out (Second) 

Disabled 

Standby Time Out (Minute) 

Disabled 

Suspend Time Out (Minute) 

Disabled 

***Select Clock Throttle Mod 

Green PC Monitor Power State 

Off 

***Select Monitor Event*** 

DMA Activity 

Ignore 

PCI Master Activity 

Ignore 

Parallel IO Activity 

Ignore 

Serial IO Activity 

Ignore 

Keyboard Activity 

Monitor 

Floppy Disk Activity 

Ignore 

Hard Disk Activity 

Ignore 

IRQ1-15 Interrupt 

Monitor 

ESC : Exit 

↑↓

 : Sel 

System Timer Interrupt 

Ignore 

PgUp/PgDn : 

Modify 

F1:Help 

F2/F3 : Color 

Power Management Setup options are displayed by choosing the Power Management field from the AMI 
BIOS Setup main menu.    All Power Management Setup options are described in this section.   
 

Power Management /APM: Setting to Enabled will activate the Advanced Power Management (APM) 
feature to enhance power saving modes. Settings: Enabled and Disabled. 

 
Video Power Down Mode: This option specifies the power conserving state that the VESA VGA video 
subsystem enters after the specifies period of display inactivity has expired. 

 
Hard Disk Power Down Mode: This option specifies the power conserving state that the hard disk drive 

enters after the specified period of hard drive inactivity has expired. The setting are Standby, Suspend, 
Doze, or Disable. 
 

Doze Time Out (Second): This option specifies the length of the period of system nactirity before the 
computer is placed in Doze mode. 

 
Standby Time Out (Minute): This option specifies the length of the period of system inactivity while the 

computer is in Full-On power state before the computer is placed in Standby mode. When this length of the 
time expires, the computer enters Standby Timeout state. In Standby mode, some power use is curtailed. 
 

Suspend Time Out (Minute): This option specifies the length of a period of system inactivity while in 
Standby state. When this length of time expires, the computer enters Suspend power state. 

 
Green PC Monitor Power State: This option specifies the power state that the green PC-compliant video 
monitor enters when AMIBIOS places it in a power saving state after the specified period of display 

inactivity has expired. The settings are Off, Standby, Suspend, or On.