BIOS Setup
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Power Management Setup
The Power Management Setup option sets the systemÕs power saving
functions.
Run the Power Management Setup as follows.
1. Choose ÒPOWER MANAGEMENT SETUPÓ from the Main Menu
and a screen with a list of items appears.
AMIBIOS SETUP - POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP
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ESC : Quit
↑ ↓ → ←
: Select Item
F1 : Help PU/PD/+/– : Modify
F5 : Old Values (Shift)F2 : Color
F6 : Load BIOS Defaults
F7 : Load Setup Defaults
CPU Critical Temperture Disabled
Power Button Function On/Off
Ring Resume From Soft Off Enabled
RTC Alarm Resume From Soft Disabled
RTC Alarm Date 15
RTC Alarm Hour 12
RTC Alarm Minute 30
RTC Alarm Second 30
Power Management/APM Disabled
Green Monitor Power State Stand By
Video Power Down Mode Suspend
Hard Disk Power Down Mode Suspend
Standby Time Out (Minute) Disabled
Suspend Time Out (Minute) Disabled
Throttle Slow Clock Ratio 50-62.5%
Modem Use IO Port N/A
Modem USE IRQ N/A
Display Activity Ignore
Device 6 (Serial port 1) Monitor
Device 7 (Serial port 2) Monitor
Device 8 (Parallel port) Ignore
Device 5 (Floppy Disk) Monitor
Device 0 (Primary Master ID)Monitor
Device 1 (Primary Slave ID) Ignore
Device 2 (Sec Master ID) Monitor
Device 3 (Sec Slave ID) Ignore
System Thermal Ignore
Thermal Slow Clock Ratio 50-62.5%
2. Use the arrow keys to move between items and to select values.
Modify the selected fields using the PgUp/PgDn/+/- keys.
A short description of selected screen items follows:
Power
Management
Set this option to
Disabled
to disable all power
saving functions and many of the options on this
menu will be unavailable.
Green Monitor
Power State;
Video Power Down
Mode;
Harddisk Power
Down Mode
These three options can be set to
Disabled
,
Stand
by
, or
Suspend
to determine which mode will be
entered when the standby and suspend timers run
out.
Stand by
is entered when the Standby timer
runs out and the clock will be slowed down to a
x% of the original clock speed. X is determined
by the ÔThrottle Slow clock RatioÕ setting.
Suspend mode stops the CPU and is entered
when the suspend timer runs out.
