Overview
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your application again. Suspend to Hard Drive saves your current work (system
status, memory image) into hard disk. Note that you have to use VESA
compatible PCI VGA, Sound Blaster compatible sound card with APM driver,
for Suspend to Hard Drive to work properly.
ACPI Suspend to Hard Drive
The conventional "Suspend to Hard Drive"
function is a private design of AOpen motherboards, the requirement to run it is
a BIOS revision and correct chipset that supports this function. However,
nowadays "Suspend to Hard Drive" has been become widely known as the "S4
- Hibernation" state defined in the ACPI specification; in this case not only the
BIOS itself but also the operation system (i.e. Windows98) and even the display
card are involved in the execution of this function. With regard to how to
implement this function, please refer to section “1.4 ACPI Suspend to Hard
Drive”.
0V Wake On Modem
In conjunction with ATX soft power On/Off, it is possible
to have the system totally power off and wakeup to automatically answer a
phone call to serve as an answering machine or to send/receive a fax. The
most important break through is not only an externally cased modem but also
an internal modem card can be used to support Wake On Modem. The MX6B
EZ and MP56 internal modem card implement a special circuit (patent applied)
to make sure the modem card works properly without any power.
Wake On LAN
This feature is very similar as the Wake On Modem feature, but
it is through a local area network. To use the Wake On LAN function, you must
have a network card that supports this feature and have installed proper
network management software.
Wake On RTC Timer
The Wake Up Timer is more like an alarm, which wakes
up and powers on your system at a pre-defined time for a specific application. It
can be set to wake up everyday or on specific date within a month. The
date/time is accurate to within a second.
Wake On Keyboard
This function allows you to power on your system by
clicking the hot key that you specified. Besides, you also may disable the
function of power button and let the system can only be powered on through
the preset keys (like a password).
Wake On Mouse
This function allows you power on the system by clicking a
specified mouse button twice successively.
High Efficiency Synchronous Switching Regulator
Most of the current
switching designs are Asynchronous mode, which from a technical point of view,
still consumes very high power and generates heat. This motherboard
implements a high efficient synchronous switching design so that the
temperature of MOS FET is far less than the Schottky diode of the
asynchronous design.
CPU and Housing Fan Monitoring
The MX6B EZ has one more "fan
monitoring" function to prevent system overheat. There are two fan connectors.
