ASUS C-P6ND User’s Manual
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IV. BIOS SOFTWARE
IV
. BIOS
(Power Manage)
Video Off Method
This field defines the video off features. Three options are available: V/H SYNC +
Blank, DPMS, and Blank Only. The first option, which is the default setting, blanks
the screen and turns off vertical and horizontal scanning; DPMS (acronym for Dis-
play Power Management System) allows the BIOS to control the video display card
if it supports the DPMS feature; Blank Screen only blanks the screen. Use the latter
for monitors that do not support the “Green” (no power management) feature.
Take note that a screen saver software does not work with this feature. While the
monitor is shut off, this software cannot display.
Suspend Switch
This field enables or disables the SMI connector on the motherboard. This connec-
tor connects to the lead from the Suspend switch mounted on the system case. De-
fault setting for this field is Enabled.
Doze Speed, Stdby Speed
These two fields set the CPU speed during each mode. The number indicates what
the normal CPU speed is divided by.
PM Timers
This section controls the time-out settings for the Power Management scheme. The
fields included in this section are “HDD Power Down”, which places the hard disk
into its lowest power consumption mode, and the Doze, Standby and Suspend sys-
tem inactivation modes.
The system automatically “wakes up” from any power saving mode when there is
system activity such as when a key is pressed from the keyboard, or when there is
activity detected from the enabled IRQ channels.
“HDD Power Down” shuts down any IDE hard disk drives in the system after a
period of inactivity. This time period is user-configurable to “1-15 Mins or "Dis-
able.” This feature does not affect SCSI hard drives.
The “Doze Mode”, “Standby Mode” and “Suspend Mode” fields set the period of
time after which each of these modes activate. At “Max Saving”, these modes acti-
vate sequentially (in the given order) after one minute; at “Min Saving” after one
hour.
