Power Management Setup - Acer AcerPower F2 Service Manual

Power Management Setup

The Power Management menu lets you configure your system to most effectively save energy while operating
in a manner consistent with your own style of computer use.
The following screen shows the Power Management parameters and their default settings:
The following table describes the parameters found in this menu. Settings in boldface are the default and
suggested settings.
Parameter
ACPI Function
ACPI Suspend Type
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Description
This item is to activate the ACPI (Advanced
Configuration and Power Management Interface)
Function. If your operating system is ACPI
aware, such as Windows 98SE/2000/Me, select
Enabled.
This item specifies the power saving modes for
ACPI function. S1(POS): The S1 sleep mode is a
low power state. In this state, no system context
(CPU or chipset) is lost and hardware maintains
all system context. S3 (STR): The S3 sleep
mode is s power-down state in which power is
supplied only to essential components such as
main memory and wake-capable devices and all
system context is saved to main memory. The
information stored in memory will be used to
restore the PC to the previous state when an
wake-up event occurs. S1&S3: Both S1 and S3
will be adopted.
Options
Enabled
Disabled
S1 (POS)
S3 (STR)
S1&S3
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