Using Your Green PC Features
Your computer includes features that lower the power usage of
the microprocessor and other components when the system has
been inactive for a selected period of time. Using the SETUP
program, you can customize inactivity timers for three
power-saving modes: Doze, Standby, and Suspend. Each of the
three modes provides progressively increased levels of power
conservation.
You can also customize an individual Standby timer for the
hard disk drive. If you have an Energy Star compliant monitor,
your computer places the monitor in power-saving modes too.
See “Using the Green PC Features” in Chapter 2 for
information on customizing these options.
The power-saving operations performed by your computer in
each of the power-saving modes are summarized in the table
below.
Power-saving modes
Mode
Doze
Standby
(disabled by
default)
Power-saving operations
The processor slows down
The processor speed slows further and the monitor
screen goes blank (the monitor is placed in a low
power consumption mode only if it is Energy Star
compliant)
Suspend
The processor clock stops, the hard disk drive(s) power
down, and the monitor screen goes blank (the monitor
is placed in a low power consumption mode only if it is
Energy Star compliant)
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Note
Some processors do not support power-saving modes; in
these cases only the hard disk drive and monitor can take
advantage of your green PC features.
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