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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
There are four selections for Power Management, three of which have
fixed mode settings.
Disable (default)
No power management. Disables all four modes
Min. Power Saving
Minimum power management. Doze Mode = 1 hr.
Standby Mode = 1 hr., Suspend Mode = 1 hr., and
HDD Power Down = 15 min.
Max. Power Saving
Maximum power management --
ONLY AVAILABLE
FOR SL CPU’s
. Doze Mode = 1 min., Standby
Mode = 1 min., Suspend Mode = 1 min., and HDD
Power Down = 1 min.
User Defined
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.
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 and write blanks to the
video buffer.
Blank Screen
This option only writes blanks to the video
buffer.
DPMS
Initial display power management signaling.
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Video Off In Suspend
This determines the manner in which the monitor is blanked.
The choice: Yes, No.
Suspend Type
Select the Suspend Type.
The choice: PWRON Suspend, Stop Grant.
Suspend Mode
When enabled and after the set time of system inactivity, all devices
except the CPU will be shut off.
The choice: 1Min, 2Min, 4Min, 8Min, 12Min, 20Min, 30Min, 40Min, 1Hour,
Disabled.
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.
The choice: 1Min, 2Min, 3Min, 4Min, 5Min, 6Min, 7Min, 8Min, 9Min,
10Min, 11Min, 12Min, 13Min, 14Min, 15Min, Disabled.
PM EVENTS
PM events are I/O events whose occurrence can prevent the system
from entering a power saving mode or can awaken the system from
such a mode. In effect, the system remains alert for anything which
occurs to a device which is configured as
Enabled
, even when the
system is in a power down mode.
Primary IDE 0
Primary IDE 1
Secondary IDE 0
Secondary IDE 1
FDD, COM, LPT Port
PCI PIRQ[A-D] #
