Power Management Features; Advanced Configuration And Power Interface (Acpi); Advanced Power Management (Apm 1.2) - EUROCOM 8880 Dream Machine User Manual

Power Management Features

To conserve power, especially when using the battery, your note-
book computer has two types of power management available, ACPI
and APM. Power management conserves power by controlling indi-
vidual components of the computer (the monitor and hard disk drive)
or the whole system.
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
(ACPI)
The ACPI interface provides the computer with enhanced power
saving techniques and gives the operating system (OS) direct control
over the power and thermal states of devices and processors. For ex-
ample, it enables the OS to set devices into low-power states based
on user settings and information from applications. ACPI is available
in Windows 2000 and Windows XP. ACPI is the more recent of the
two power management types available and the one you use with a
newer Windows operating system (see sidebar note).

Advanced Power Management (APM 1.2)

APM is an older type of power management.
Advanced Controls
OS Note
Power
functions
slightly depending on
your operating system.
For more information it
is best to refer to the
user's manual of your
operating system.
(Note:
used on the following
pages are from the
Windows XP OS).
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management
will vary
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