Changing Power Modes - Gateway MX6960 Reference Manual

CHAPTER 5: Managing Power

Changing power modes

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If you will have access to an EmPower™
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in-flight power receptacle, an automobile
power outlet, or an automobile cigarette
lighter, use a power inverter. Save the
battery for times when you cannot use a
power adapter.
To find AC power outlets in airports, look
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for them next to support pillars, in large
areas such as boarding gates, and under
banks of telephones.
You can use the following power modes to
lengthen the life of your notebook's battery:
Standby - while your notebook is in
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Standby, it switches to a low power state
where devices, such as the display and
drives, turn off.
Hibernate - (also called save to disk) writes
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all current memory (RAM) information to
the hard drive, then turns your notebook
completely off. The next time you turn on
your notebook, it reads the memory
information from the hard drive and opens
the programs and documents that were
open when you activated Hibernate mode.
Using power saving modes
Always save your work before using Standby
mode. In Standby mode, your notebook reduces
or turns off the power to most devices except
memory. However, the information in memory is
not saved to the hard drive. If power is
interrupted, the information is lost.
When in Hibernate mode, your notebook saves
all memory information to the hard drive, then
turns the power completely off.