2-24 Setup and Operation
Power Management Configuration
Place the cursor in the Power Management Configuration field and select it by pressing
Enter
. The Power Management Submenu appears for setting parameters that affect the
power saving features.
Power Management Submenu
The Power Management Submenu lets you check or change the Advanced Power
Management parameter. Selecting the Advanced Power Management field enables or
disables power management support in the BIOS (the default is enabled).
Power management reduces the amount of energy used after specified periods of inactivity.
The Advanced Power Management menu offers you the choice of operating the system in a
full on state or standby state with partial power reduction when idle.
NOTE:
This field must be enabled to be Energy
Star Compliant.
Enabled (default)
−
allows the BIOS to work with the OS and reduce power
consumption when idle. This selection allows you to customize the following
power management fields.
Disabled
−
keeps the computer in a full on state and eliminates the following
power management options.
IDE Drive Power Down
The IDE Drive Power Down field controls whether or not a spin down command
will be issued to the IDE drives when the system goes into low power mode. This
field can be either “Enabled” or “Disabled.” The default is “Enabled.”
Inactivity Timer (Minutes)
The Inactivity Timer (Minutes) field controls the number of minutes that the
system will detect no user activity before going into low power mode. Minutes
range between 0 and 255; the default value is 10 minutes.
Hot Key
The Hot Key field is used to define a key which, when entered, will cause the
BIOS to put the OS into power management mode. Use this field to choose an
alphabetic character. Press
CTRL
–
ALT
– user defined alphabetic character
when not in Setup to use the feature. Typically, there is some delay before the
system enters power management mode and the speaker issues two tones.
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