Power Management Setup - Abit VA-20 User Manual

BIOS Setup 3-19
3.2.5.

Power Management Setup

This option lets you control system power management. The system has various
power-saving modes including powering down the hard disk, turning off the video,
suspending to RAM, and software power down that allows the system to be
automatically resumed by certain events.
The power-saving modes can be controlled by timeouts. If the system is inactive for a
time, the timeouts begin counting. If the inactivity continues so that the timeout period
elapses, the system enters a power-saving mode. If any item in the list of Reload
Global Timer Events is Enabled, then any activity on that item will reset the timeout
counters to zero.
If the system is suspended or has been powered down by software, it can be resumed
by a wake up call that is generated by incoming traffic to a modem, a LAN card, a
PCI card, or a fixed alarm on the system realtime clock
ACPI Suspend Type (S3(STR))
Use this item to define how your system suspends. In the default, S1(POS), the
suspend mode is equivalent to a software power down. If you select S3 (STR), the
suspend mode is a suspend to RAM, i.e., the system shuts down with the exception of
a refresh current to the system memory.
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