Restarting Or Rebooting; Powering Off The Notebook Pc - Asus L4E User Manual

Getting Started
Power Management - Stand By & Hibernate
Power management settings can be found in the Windows control panel. The following shows the power
options properties in Windows ME. You can define Stand By or Power Off for closing the display panel,
pressing the power button, or activating sleep mode. Basically Stand by and Hibernate saves power
when your Notebook PC is not in use by turning OFF certain components. When you resume your work,
your last status (such as a document scrolled down half way or email typed half way will reappear as if
you never left. Power Off will close all applications and ask if you want to save your work if any are not
saved.
Stand By is the same as Suspend-to-RAM (STR). This function stores your current data and status in RAM
while many components are turned OFF. Because RAM is volatile, it requires power to keep (refresh) the
data.
Hibernate is the same as Suspend-to-Disk (STD) and stores your current data and status on the hard
disk drive. By doing this, RAM does not have to be refreshed and power consumption is greatly reduced
but not completely eliminated because certain wake-up components like LAN and modem needs to
remain powered.
Hibernate saves you maximum power than Stand By. Your current session can be all saved to disk and
network connections can be restored in this mode before shut down. Click Start, and select Hibernate in
Windows 98 or - Click Start, select Shut Down, then choose Hibernate in Window 2000.

Restarting or Rebooting

After making changes to your operating system, you may be prompted to restart the system. Some
installation processes will provide a dialog box to allow restart. To restart the system manually:
Click the Start button and select Shut Down | and choose Restart.
In case the operating system hangs (stops, freezes, crashes), try the following in this order:
1. Try a "warm boot" by pressing the [Ctrl][Alt][Del] keys simultaneously. (You may try a few times.)
2. If warm booting fails to work, you can press the shut down button located in a small hole on the
bottom of the Notebook PC with a pen, mechanical pencil, or paper clip. (Do not use a standard pencil
because the tip may break off in the hole.)

Powering OFF the Notebook PC

For operating systems equipped with ACPI (Windows ME/2000), the Notebook PC can be powered OFF
by using Start | Shut Down... | Shut down. For operating systems without proper power management
(DOS, Windows NT), you must power OFF the Notebook PC by holding the power switch for 2 seconds
(as opposed to 1 second to power ON) after closing applications and exiting operating systems. This is
necessary in order to prevent accidental power-OFFs.
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