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4.5
POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP MENU
The Power Management Setup option is used to change the values of the chipset
registers for system power management functions.
ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (2A5LEG3D)
POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP
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Power Management
: User Define
Primary INTR
: ON
PM Control by APM
Video Off Option
Video off Method
MODEM Use IRQ
Soft-off by PWRBTN
: Yes
: Suspend
→
Off
: V/H SYNC + Blank
: 3
: Delay 4 Sec.
IRQ3 (COM2)
IRQ4 (COM1)
IRQ5 (LPT2)
IRQ6 (Floppy Disk)
IRQ7 (LPT1)
IRQ8 (RTC Alarm)
: Disabled
: Disabled
: Disabled
: Disabled
: Disabled
: Disabled
**PM Timers**
IRQ9 (IRQ2 Redir)
: Disabled
HDD Power Down
Suspend Mode
: Disabled
: Disabled
IRQ10 (Reserved)
IRQ11 (Reserved)
IRQ12 (PS/2 Mouse)
: Disabled
: Disabled
: Disabled
**PM Event**
IRQ13 (Coprocessor)
: Disabled
VGA
LPT & COM
: OFF
: None
IRQ14 (Hard Disk)
IRQ15 (Reserved)
: Disabled
: Disabled
HDD & FDD
DMA/Master
Modem Ring Resume
RTC Alarm Resume
Date (of month)
Timer (hh:mm:ss)
: OFF
: OFF
: Disabled
: Enabled
: 1
: 0:0:0
ESC: Quit
↑ ↓ →
←
: Select Item
F1: Help
PU/PD/+/-: Modify
F5: Old Values
(Shift)F2: Color
F7: Load Setup Defaults
Fig. 20
A short description of the screen items follows:
Power Management: Available selections are “Disabled”, “User Define”, “Max Saving” and
“Min Saving”:
“Disabled” will disable all the power saving functions.
“User Define” makes the time period waiting for Suspend Mode to be programmed.
“Max Saving” will set the time period waiting for Suspend Mode to be 1 minute.
“Min Saving” will set the time period waiting for Suspend Mode to be 1 hour.
PM Control by APM: Available options are “Yes” and “No”. To choose “Yes” to let the Power
Management Function to be control by the MS APM software.
Video Off Option: Choose the mode in which you want the monitor to blank. The options are
“Always On”, “Suspend
→
Off”, “Susp, Stby
→
Off”, “All mode
→
Off”.
