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Expansion Cards” for more information about the resources used by
expansion cards.
Each item shown as “Available” is assumed not to be in use by any
ISA card or device and will therefore be made available for the PCI
auto-configuring process. Some items are shown as “Allocated by the
system”, meaning that they are reserved for use by motherboard
devices.
Power Management
These power management features are provided to reduce the
average amount of electricity consumed by your computer. Some
features will have been enabled in our factory to ensure compliance
with the Energy Star programme. For more information about
Energy Star, see the Windows Help file pre-installed on your hard
disk.
Hard Disk Standby
If this option is “Enabled”, the hard disk drive will stop spinning or
spin down after about 20 minutes of inactivity.
Standby Time-out
If this option is not “Disabled”, the computer will go into a low-
power standby mode after the specified period of inactivity. The
processor slows down and, provided that the Monitor Power
Management option is also “Enabled”, the monitor display goes
blank. The operating system and your programs continue to run,
although slowly. You can wake the computer again by pressing any
keyboard key.
Monitor Power Management
This option is intended to be used only with monitors that support
Display Power Management Signalling (DPMS). If “Enabled”, the
monitor will go blank when the computer enters standby mode (see
above).
Another way of saving monitor power is by using the built-in
power-saving features of Windows 95, or the Cirrus Logic Display
