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Global Power Management
Global Power Management automatically puts the notebook into suspend mode
when the notebook is inactive for a period of time, called "time-out." The notebook
will wake up whenever an activity is detected (e.g. pressing a key).
The time-out settings for suspend mode can be set up in the Setup Configuration
Utility (SCU) program. The notebook suspends to RAM (memory) or disk (hard
drive) depending on the "Suspend Controls" setting in the SCU program.
Manual Power Management
You can manually initiate Suspend mode at any time in one of these ways:
By pressing the hotkey [Fn]+[F12].
By closing the notebook.
Note that this works only if the "Lid Switch Function" item is set to
Suspend/Resume in the SCU program.
For information on Suspend-to-Disk mode, see the following section.
Suspend-to-Disk
CAUTION:
1. The suspend-to-disk partition is present on your hard drive when
the computer is shipped. To verify that the suspend-to-disk feature
is available, enable it in the SCU program and reboot the notebook.
If it is not available, you will get an error message and the
suspend-to-disk feature can not be used.
2. The HIBERNAT utility allows you to create the
suspend-to-disk partition. (See "HIBERNAT Utility"
in Chapter 6 for information.)
When the notebook suspends to disk, the system preserves all the running
application programs as a file in a "suspend-to-disk partition" on the hard disk. The
notebook then automatically turns off. The next time you turn on the notebook, it
reads the file from the suspend-to-disk partition back into memory, so that your
notebook is returned to exactly the same state it was in when you suspended it.
Suspend-to-Disk is a very useful feature. People frequently open many
applications when they use notebooks. It takes some time to get all these
applications open and running, and normally they all have to be closed before the
system can be turned off. If you use the Suspend-to-Disk feature, you don't have
to close the applications as the state of your notebook is saved to disk. When you
turn on your notebook next time, your notebook with all the applications open will
be recreated in just a few seconds.
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