Technical Information 1-20
PLUG AND PLAY
The system comes with a Plug and Play BIOS which supports Plug and Play technology.
Plug and Play eliminates complicated setup procedures for installing Plug and Play
expansion boards. With Plug and Play, adding a Plug and Play expansion board is done by
turning off the system, installing the board, and turning on the system. There are no jumpers
to set and no system resource conflicts to resolve. Plug and Play automatically configures
the board.
POWER MANAGEMENT
The BIOS supports Advanced Power Management (APM) features. The energy-saving
Stand-By mode can be initiated by a keyboard hot key sequence set by the user, a time-out
period set by the user, or by a suspend/resume button tied to the front panel sleep
connector.
While in Stand-By mode, the system board reduces power consumptiom utilizing the
Pentium processor’s System Management Mode (SMM) capabilities.The monitor goes
blank and the IDE hard drives spin down.
NOTE:
The ability to respond to external
interrupts, such as network messages, is fully
maintained, allowing the system to service
requests while unattended.
Any keyboard or mouse activity brings the system out of energy-saving Stand-By mode (the
monitor and IDE drives are turned back on).
The system can be manually put into a Suspend energy-saving mode by pressing the
suspend button. A blinking power lamp indicates that the system is in the power-saving
mode. As soon as activity is detected, the system resumes where it left off.
APM is enabled in BIOS by default. APM parameters and features, such as the amount of
inactive time, are configurable through the Setup utility. See Section 2 for information on
setting power mangement parameters through Setup.
The system must be configured with an APM driver before the power saving features take
affect. Windows 95 enables APM automatically when it detects the presence of the APM
BIOS.
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