Power Screen
Table 11. Power Screen Options
Boot Screen
Set User
Password
Allows you to assign, change, or clear a user password, which controls access to the computer at start-up.
Set Setup
Password
Allows you to assign, change, or clear a setup password that provides access to both the computer and the system setup
program.
User Setup Access Controls user access to the system setup program.
Full
Access
(default) allows full user access. Set this option to
Limited
Access
to allow user access only to
System
Date
,
System Time
, and
Set
User
Password
. Set this option to
View
Only
to allow only user viewing access.
None
prevents user access to the system setup program.
Option
Function
Power Management
Enables or disables
Inactivity
Timer
and
Hard
Drive
options.
Inactivity Timer
Determines the period of system inactivity (between 1 and 120 minutes) before certain system components enter a
low-power mode. To disable power management, leave this option set to
Off
(default).
NOTE: Leave this option set to
Off
if the operating system has power management controls.
Hard Drive
When set to
Enabled
(default),
Hard
Drive
allows most EIDE hard-disk drives to automatically switch into low-
power mode after a specified period of system inactivity (called a
time-out
). The time-out period is set with the
Inactivity
Timer
option. When
Hard
Drive
is set to
Disabled
, hard-disk drives do not switch into low-power mode.
VESA Video Power Down
NOTES: This option is available only if the installed video card supports this feature.
If your computer is running Windows 98, use the
Display
icon in the
Control
Panel
to save monitor power
instead of using the
VESA Video Power Down
option. If your computer is running Windows 2000, double-click
the
Display
icon in the
Control Panel
and then click the
Power
button on the
Screen Saver
tab to save monitor
power.
NOTICE: Before enabling this option, check the monitor documentation to make sure that the monitor is
DPMS-compliant; otherwise, there is a risk of damaging the monitor.
This option selects a VESA
®
power management mode for the monitor during periods of system inactivity. Settings
for this option are
Disabled
,
Standby
(default),
Suspend
, and
Sleep
.
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