Power Management Setup - MSI K7N420 Pro User Manual

Chapter 3

Power Management Setup

The Power Management Setup allows you to configure you system to
most effect ively save energy whi le operating in a mann er consistent with
your own style of compu ter use.
IPCA Function
Th is item allo ws y ou to set AC PI (Ad van ced Co nfi guratio n and Power
Management) function. Available options are [Enabled] and [Disabled].
Sleep State
This item sp ecifies the power saving modes for ACPI function . Avail able
option s are.
S1(POS) The S1 state is low power state. In this state, no system
co nt ex t (C PU or chi pset ) i s lo st and th e hard ware
maintains all system context.
S3(STR) The S3 state is a lower power state where the
information
of system configuration and open applications/files is
saved to main memory that remains power while most
other h ardware comp onents turn off to save energy.
The information stored in memory will be used to
restore t he system when an "wake up" even t occurs.
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