Using The Suspend Button; How Suspend Is Initiated - Compaq Armada 4100 Reference Manual

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Using the Suspend Button

When you finish working, or if you want to pause in the middle of
your applications, initiate Suspend.
Suspend has the following benefits:
This feature puts the computer to sleep (for up to 100 hours with
fully charged Nickel Metal Hydride battery packs; up to 168
hours with Lithium Ion battery packs), uses very little power,
and saves your place in your applications.
During Suspend, most of the major components (hard drive,
processor, and display) shut down.

How Suspend Is Initiated

Suspend is initiated in one of three ways:
Manually, at any time, by pressing the suspend button
The power/suspend indicator light
Suspend Button and Power/Suspend Indicator Light
Automatically, when a predefined timeout has been reached.
You can set the Suspend timeout period in Power Properties.
Or refer to Setting a Timeout in this chapter.
Manually, by clicking suspend from the Windows Start menu.
will blink slowly.
Managing Power
once.
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