Abit SX7-533 User Manual page 43

Introducing the BIOS
If the system is in this
state......
Off
On
On
Sleep
ACPI Standby State:
Three options are available: S1 ) S3 ) Auto. The default setting is Auto. In this case, BIOS will
automatically judge your system can running on which state. Generally, ACPI has six states: System S0
state, S1 state, S2 state, S3 state, S4 state, S5 state. S1 and S3 states are described below:
The S1 (POS) State (POS means Power On Suspend):
While the system is in the S1 sleeping state, its behavior is as described below:
! The processor is not executing instructions. The processor's complex context is maintained.
! Dynamic RAM context is maintained.
! Power Resources are in a state compatible with the system S1 state. All Power Resources that supply a
System Level reference of S0 are in the OFF state.
! Devices states are compatible with the current Power Resource states. Only devices which solely
reference Power Resources which are in the ON state for a given device state can be in that device state.
In all other cases, the device is in the D3 (off) state.
! Devices that are enabled to wake the system and that can do so from their current device state can
initiate a hardware event which transitions the system state to S0. This transition causes the processor
to continue execution where it left off.
To transition into the S1 state, the operating software does not have to flush the processor's cache.
The S3 (STR) State (STR means Suspend to RAM):
The S3 state is logically lower then the S2 state and is assumed to conserve more power. The behavior of
this state is defined as follows:
! Processor is not executing instructions. The processor complex context is not maintained.
! Dynamic RAM context is maintained.
! Power Resources are in a state compatible with the system S3 state. All Power Resources that supply a
System Level reference of S0, S1, or S2 are in the OFF state.
! Devices states are compatible with the current Power Resource states. Only devices which solely
reference Power Resources which are in the ON state for a given device state can be in that device state.
In all other cases, the device is in the D3 (off) state.
! Devices that are enabled to wake the system and that can do so from their current device state can
initiate a hardware event which transitions the system state to S0. This transition causes the processor
to begin execution at its boot location. The BIOS performs initialization of core functions as required to
exit an S3 state and passes control to the firmware resume vector. Please see the ACPI Specification
Rev. 1.0 book section 9.3.2 for more details on BIOS initialization.
Table 3-5-2: Effect of Pressing the Power Switch
......and the power switch is
pressed for
Less than four seconds
More than four seconds
Less than four seconds
Less than four seconds
......the system enters this
state
Power on
Forced power off
Defined by OS
Wake up
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