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Suspend to Disk is a very useful feature. People frequently open many applications
and have them iconized on the Windows screen. 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 need to
close the applications as the state of your notebook is saved to disk. When you next
turn on your notebook, your Windows screen, with all the applications open, will be
recreated in just a few seconds.
36MB of your hard disk space has been reserved as the suspend-to-disk
partition when your notebook shipped from the factory. This means you
can safely suspend to disk if the notebook has 32MB of installed
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memory.
When you enter or resume from Suspend to Disk mode, you can see
some flicker on the display. However, this is not a malfunction.
Entering Suspend Mode
Suspend mode can be activated in any of the following ways:
By clicking Suspend on the Windows Start menu.
By pressing Fn+F12.
By setting the Auto Suspend option in the Setup Utility to automatically suspend
after a certain period of notebook inactivity. See the section on Changing Power
Configuration Settings for details.
By closing the cover (always suspends to RAM).
By the power switch (if so configured in the Setup Utility).
By low battery voltage. During normal operation, the notebook will suspend to
disk immediately. If it is already suspended to RAM, the data is copied to disk if
the Auto Suspend to Disk setting is enabled in the Setup Utility (otherwise, the
data is lost if the batteries drain completely).
The system does not enter Suspend to Disk or RAM mode when playing
video or animation.
3-4 Activating Power Management
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