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AWARD BIOS SETUP
There are four selections for Power Management, three of which have fixed mode setting.
Disable (Default)
Min. Power Saving
Max. Power Saving
User Defined
ACPI Suspend Type : This item will set which ACPI suspend type will be used.
S1 (POS)
PM Control by APM : The default setting is "Yes".
No
Yes
Note: Enable this for O.S. with APM like Windows® 98, Windows® NT, etc.
Video Off Option : This option is for choosing the setting in which the monitor will turn off.
The default setting is "Suspend".
Always On
Suspend—Off
All Modes—Off
Video Off Method : This determines the manner in which the monitor is blanked. The
default setting is "V/H SYNC+Blank".
V/H SYNC+Blank
Blank Screen
DPMS Support
No power management. Disables all four modes.
Minimum power management. Doze Mode=1hr. Standby Mode
=1hr., Suspend Mode=1hr., and HDD Power Down=15min.
Maximum power management. –Only available for SL CPU's.
Doze Mode=1min., Standby Mode=1min., Suspend Mode=1min.,
and HDD Power Down=1min.
Allows you to set each mode individually. When not disabled,
each of the ranges are from 1 min. to 1 hr. except for HDD Power
Down which ranges from 1 min. to 15 min. and disabled.
The S1 sleeping state is low wake-up latency sleeping state. In
this state, no system context is lost (CPU or chipset) and hardware
maintains all system context.
System BIOS will ignore APM when power managing the system.
System BIOS will wait for APM's prompt before it enter any PM
mode.
Monitor remains on during power-saving modes.
Monitor blanked when system enters Suspend mode.
Monitor blanked when system enters any power saving mode.
This selection will cause the system to turn off the vertical and
horizontal synchronization ports and write blank to the video
buffer.
This option only writes blanks to the video buffer.
Initial display power management signaling.
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