Power Management Commands; Conserving Battery Power - Sony PCG-VX88 VAIO User Guide (primary manual) User Manual

Power Management commands

PowerPanel™ also provides power management commands that you can use to
activate specific power management functions and to control power for a specific
device. You can use these commands to override a profile setting or initiate an
immediate action.
Standby — Puts the system into Standby mode, a power management state
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that saves the state of the system and peripheral devices in memory (RAM).
Power consumption reduces to a minimum, and the system remains on. To
return the system to the active state, press any key on your computer. Your
notebook is preset to enter Standby mode after 25 minutes.
Hibernate — Provides for the lowest level of power consumption. The
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system writes the state of the system and peripheral devices to the hard disk
and turns off the system power. To return the system to the original state, use
the power button to turn on power. The system saves the data in the Save to
Disk Partition on the hard drive.

Conserving battery power

When using your notebook with a battery, the LCD display and the hard drive
can be set to switch off automatically to conserve battery power.
See "Power Management profiles" for more information.
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