Power Management; Standby Mode; Suspend Mode; Suspend To Memory - EUROCOM 6200-A DeskNote User Manual

Power Management

The Notebook Computer provides users with power management to manage power
consumption while maintain optimal system performance.

Standby Mode

Standby Mode is the device level power management. Most controllable peripheral
devices, such as hard disk and LCD display, will be powered off. If the STANDBY
timer expires before any system a ctivity is detected, the system will change from
Standby Mode to Suspend Mode.

Suspend Mode

Suspend Mode is the system level power management. The CPU and DMA clocks
will be halted and all controllable peripheral devices will be turned off.
The system may be suspended by:
Be sure not to initialize the Suspend Mode when any of the disk drives is accessed
such as HDD, FDD and CD-ROM drive.

Suspend to Memory

Suspend-to-Memory is a 5-volt suspend mode for system power management.

Suspend to Disk

Suspend-to-Disk is a 0-volt suspend mode for system power management.
1. Use your operating system's FDISK program to delete all partitions of the hard
disk if any already exists on the target drive.
2. Boot the system from the A: drive and run the 0VMAKFIL.EXE Utility to create the
Suspend to Disk partition on the hard disk whose size will accommodate the
installed DRAM (n) plus 2MB integrated video RAM.
For example, if the system DRAM is 72MB, 0VMAKFIL will create a partition of
size about 75MB.
Note : Rewrite the sector signatures if you partition again the very hard disk.
3. Re-partition the hard disk using your operating systems FDISK program.
Suspend hot key
Suspend timeout
Battery weak
A:\>0VMAKFIL /Pn
A:\>0VMAKFIL /P72
C:\>0VMAKFIL /PW
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