Power Management Setup - Acer Aspire E700 Service Manual

Power Management Setup

The system has various power-saving modes including powering down the hard disk, turning off
the video, suspending to RAM, and software power down that allows the system to be
automatically resumed by certain events.
The power-saving modes can be controlled by time-outs. If the system is inactive for a while, the
time-outs begin counting. If the inactivity continues so that the time-out period elapses, the
system enters a power-saving mode. If any item in the list of Reload Global Timer Events is
Enabled, then any activity on that item will reset the time-out counters to zero.
If the system is suspended or has been powered down by software, it can be resumed by a wake
up call that is generated by incoming traffic to a modern, a LAN card, a PCI card, or a fixed alarm
on the system real-time clock.
ACPI Function
This item allows users to enable or disable the ACPI power management function.
ACPI Suspend Type
You can use this item to define how your system suspends.
Run VGA BIOS if S3 Resume
This item allows the system to initialize the VGA BIOS from S3 (Suspend to RAM) sleep state.
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