User’s Manual
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The Power Management Setup option controls the power management
functions. This motherboard supports ACPI (Advanced Configuration and
Power management Interface). The system has various power saving modes
that allows the system to be automatically resumed by certain events.
ACPI Function
This item allows you to Enabled or Disabled the ACPI ( Advanced Configura-
tion and Power management Interface) function.
The available options for ACPI Function are : [Enabled] [Disabled].
Power Management / HDD Power Down / Doze Mode / Suspend Mode
Allows you to select the type of power saving for HDD Power Down, Doze,
and Suspend modes. See the section PM Timers for a brief description of
each mode.
z
[
User Define
] : allows you to set each mode individually. Select time-out
periods in the HDD Power Down, Doze Mode, and Suspend Mode section.
z
[
Max Saving
] : Maximum power savings. Only available for SL CPUs.
Inactivity period is 1 minute in each mode.
z
[
Min Saving
] : Minimum power savings. Inactivity period is 1 hour in each
mode (except the hard disk drive).
The available options for Power Management are : [User Define] [Max Saving]
[Min Saving]
HDD Power Down
After the selected period of drive inactivity (1 to 15 minutes), the hard disk
drive power down while allother devices remain active.
Doze Mode
After the selected period of system inactivity (1 minute to 1 hour), the CPU
clock run at slower speed while all other devices still operate at full speed.
