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
Options
This item is to activate the ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Management Interface) Function. If your operating system is ACPIaware, such as Windows 98SE/2000/Me, select Enabled.
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.
S3
Disabled
S1 S1&S3
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