Chapter 4 Award BIOS Setup / 51
Power Management
This category allows you to select the type (or degree) of
power saving and is directly related to the following
modes.
1.HDD Power Down.
2.Doze Mode.
3.Suspend Mode.
If you highlight the literal “Press Enter” next to the
“Power Management” label and then press the enter key,
it will take you a submenu with the following options:
Power Management
This option allows you to set each mode individually.
When not disabled, each of the ranges are from 1 min. to 1
hr. except for HDD Power Down which ranges from 1
min. to 15 min. and disable.
The Choices:User Define
(default),Min Saving,Max
Saving.
HDD Power Down
By default,this is “Disabled”, meaning that no matter the
mode the rest of system, the hard drive will remain ready.
Otherwise, you have a range of choices from 1 to 15
minutes or Suspend. This means that you can select to
have your hard disk drive be turned off after a selected
number of minutes or when the rest or the system goes
into a suspend mode.
Disabled
(default).
Doze Mode/Suspend Mode
The
Doze Mode
, and
Suspend Mode
fields set the Period
of time after each of these modes actives. At Max
Saving, these modes activate sequentially (in the given
order) after one minute; at Min Saving after one hour.
