MAINBOARD BIOS SETUP
BIOS, Driver & Utility Guide
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User Defined
Set each mode individually. When Enabled, each range is from 1
min. to 1 hr., except for HDD Power Down which ranges from 1
min. to 15 min.
PM Control by APM
- When set to Yes, an Advanced Power Management device
will be activated to enhance the Max. Power Saving mode and stop the CPU
internal clock. If the Max. Power Saving is not enabled, this will be preset to No.
Video Off Method
- This determines the manner in which the monitor is blanked.
V/H
SYNC+Blank
This selection will cause the system to turn off the vertical and
horizontal synchronization ports, writing blanks to the video
buffer.
Blank Screen
This option only writes blanks to the video buffer.
DPMS
Initial display power management signaling.
Video Off After -
This is to determine when to activate the video off function.
Options are: “Standby”, “Doze”, “Suspend” and “N/A”.
MODEM Use IRQ -
This
item tells the Power Management BIOS which IRQ is
assigned to the installed MODEM. Options are NA, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, and 11.
The following four modes are Green PC power saving functions which are only
user configurable when
User Defined
Power Management has been selected. See
below for available selections.
Doze Mode
When enabled and after the set time of system inactivity, the CPU
clock will run at slower speed while all other devices still operate
at full speed.
Standby Mode
When enabled and after the set time of system inactivity, the fixed
disk drive and the video will be shut off while all other devices
still operate at full speed.
Suspend Mode
When enabled and after the set time of system inactivity, all
devices except the CPU will be shut off.
HDD Power
Down
When enabled and after the set time of system inactivity, the hard
disk drive will be powered down while all other devices remain
active.
Throttle Duty Cycle
-
This item determines the duty cycle for the clock control
thermal throttling mode. The duty cycle indicates the percentage of time the
STPCLK# signal is asserted.
