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the power button down for four seconds to cause a software power down.
Resume by PCI PME (Enabled): This item specifies whether the system will be awakened from
power-saving modes when activity or input signal of the specified hardware peripheral or
component is detected.
Resume by Ring (Enabled): An input signal on the serial Ring indicator (RI) line (in other words,
an incoming call on the modem) awakens the system from soft off state.
S3 resume by USB devices (Disabled): This option allows the activity of the USB devices
(keyboard and mouse) to wake up the system from S3 sleep state.
Resume by PS2 MS/KS (S3) (Disabled): Enable or disable the function of waking up the system
by the mouse/keyboard activity.
Power on After Power fail (Off): This item enables your computer to automatically restart or
return to its last operating status after power returns from a power failure.
Resume by Alarm (Disabled): When it is set to Enabled, additional fields become available and
you can set the data (day of the month), hour, minute and second to turn on your system. When it
is set to zero for the day of the month, the alarm will power on your system every day at the
specified time.
**Reload Global Timer Events**: Global Timer (power management) events are I/O events
whose occurrence can prevent the system from entering a power saving mode or can awaken the
system from such a mode. In effect, the system remains alert for anything that occurs to a device
that is configured as Enabled, even when the system is in a power-down mode.
Primary/Secondary IDE 1/0 (Disabled): When these items are enabled, the system will restart
the power-saving timeout counters when any activity is detected on any of the drives or devices on
the primary or secondary IDE channels.
FDD, COM, LPT Port (Disabled): When this item is enabled, the system will restart the power-
saving timeout counters when any activity is detected on the floppy disk drive, serial ports, or the
parallel port.
PCI PIRQ[A-D]# (Disabled): When this item is enabled, any activity from one of the listed devices
wakes up the system.
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