Power Management - Acer Veriton 5100 Service Manual

Power Management

The Power Management menu lets you configure the system power-management feature. It works only under
APM mode.
IMPORTANT: If an ACPI-aware operating system such as Windows 98 or Windows 2000 is installed in ACPI
mode, the operating system will use the ACPI interfaces. Then the settings in Power Management
page is non-effective.
The following screen shows the Power Management parameters and their default settings:
Power Management Mode ............... [Enabled]
IDE Hard Disk Standby Timer ........ [OFF]
System Sleep Timer ................. [OFF]
Sleep Mode ....................... [-------]
Power Switch < 4 sec ................ [Suspend]
System wake-up event
Modem Ring Indicator ............... [Disabled]
PCI Power Management ............... [Enabled]
RTC Alarm ......................... [Disabled]
Resume Day .......................[--]
Resume Time ......................[--:--:--]
Restart on AC/Power Failure ....... [Disabled]
ACPI Sleep State ................... [S1]
The following table describes the parameters found in this menu.
Parameter
Power Management Mode
IDE Hard Disk Standby Timer
System Sleep Timer
Sleep Mode
Chapter 2
Power Management
Description
Allows you to reduce the system's power
consumption. When enabled, the IDE hard
disk and system timers become
configurable.
Allows the hard disk to enter Standby mode
after inactivity of 1 to 15 minutes, depending
on your setting.
Automatically puts the system to power-
saving mode after a specified period of
inactivity. Any keyboard or mouse action, or
any activity detected from the IRQ channels
resumes system operation.
Lets you specify the power-saving mode
that the system will enter after a specified
period of inactivity. This parameter is
configurable only if the System Sleep Timer
is enabled.
Options
Enabled or Disabled
Off or 1 to 15 minutes
Off, or 2, 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 40,
50...120 minutes
Suspend or Standby
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