Award BIOS Setup Program
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3-4 Power Management Setup
This section provides information on the Green PC power management functions. By
choosing the Power Management Setup option from the CMOS Setup Utility menu
(Figure 3-1), the screen below is displayed. This sample screen contains the
manufacturer's default values for the mainboard.
ROM PCI / ISA BIOS (2A59IC3E)
POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP
AWARD SOFTWARE, INC.
:Select Item
PU/PD/+/-
: Modify
(Shift) F2
: Color
ESC : Quit
F1
: Help
F5
: Old Values
F7
: Load Setup Defaults
Figure 3-5 Power Management Setup Screen
***** Temperature Monitor *****
CPU Warning Temperature
: Disabled
Current CPU Temperature
: 34
O
C/93
O
F
Power Management
: Disabled
PM Control by APM
: Yes
Video Off Method
: Blank Screen
Video Off After
: Standby
MODEM Use IRQ
: 3
Doze Mode
: Disabled
Standby Mode
: Disabled
Suspend Mode
: Disabled
HDD Power Down
: Disabled
Throttle Duty Cycle
: 62.5%
VGA Active Monitor
: Enabled
Soft-Off by PWR-BTTN
: Delay 4 Sec.
Power On By Modem
: Disabled
Power On By Alarm
: Disabled
IRQ8 Break Suspend
: Disabled
CPUFAN Off In Suspend : Enabled
With the esception of the CPU Setup, all of the above settings have been
determined by the mainboard manufacturer and should not be changed unless
you are absolutely sure of what you are doing. Explanation of the DRAM
timing and chipset features setup is lengthy, highly technical and beyond the
scope of this manual. Below are abbreviated descriptions of the functions
in this setup menu. You can look on the world wide web for helpful chipset
and RAM configuration information including AWARD's web site at
http://www.award.com.
A. Power Management
Power management allows the computer to save electricity when it is not in use
by entering increasingly deep power saving modes as shown by the diagram
below.The computer runs in Normal operation mode until the Doze timer expires,
at which point the computer enters Doze mode. If no external activity occurs,
the computer will go into Standby and Suspend modes when their respective timers