The Power Menu - Siemens SIMATIC Panel PC 870 Equipment Manual

5.5

The Power menu

Main Advanced
APM:
Power Savings:
Standby Timeout:
Suspend Timeout:
Hard Disk Timeout:
Fan Control:
F1 Help
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In the terms of "green PC", the Power menu offers a number of power saver
modes for environmentally friendly computing:
Field
APM
(Advanced
Power
Management)
Power Savings
Standby
Timeout
Suspend
Timeout
Panel PC 870 Computing Unit Equipment Manual
Edition 12/01
Configuring the Computing Unit in the BIOS SETUP
PhoenixBIOS Setup Utility
Security Power
Boot Sequence
[Enabled]
[Disabled]
Off
Off
[Disabled]
[Enabled]
Select Item + / – Change Values
Select Menu Enter Select
Power menu
The operating system can shut down system resources
Enabled
when they are not needed.
The operating system is denied APM access.
Disabled
No power-saving functions
Disabled
Customized, Maximum Power Savings, Maximum
User-selectable and preset power saving functions for
maximum and minimum power saving. You can set the
parameters for Standby/Suspend Timeouts and Fixed
Disk Timeout, or they are set automatically or set to their
defaults.
No Standby mode
OFF
seconds or
30
1, 2, 4, 8, 12, 16
minutes after your computing unit goes to Standby mode.
No Suspend mode
OFF
1, 2, 5, 10, 15, 20, 30
minutes after the computing unit goes to Suspend mode.
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Item Specific Help
APM (Advanced Power Management)
allows APM aware software to
manage power savings, if enabled
Disabled
Customized
Maximum Power Savings
Maximum Performance
F9 Setup Defaults
Sub-Menu F10 Save and Exit
Meaning
Performance
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