Chapter 8. Additional Service Information
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Additional Service
Information
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This chapter provides additional information that the service
representative might find helpful.
Power management
Power management reduces the power consumption of certain
components of the computer such as the system power supply, processor,
hard disk drives, and some monitors.
Automatic configuration and power interface (ACPI)
BIOS
Being an ACPI BIOS system, the operating system is allowed to control
the power management features of the computer and the setting for
Advanced Power Management (APM) BIOS mode is ignored. Not all
operating systems support ACPI BIOS mode.
Automatic Power-On features
The Automatic Power-On features within the Power Management menu
allow you to enable and disable features that turn on the computer
automatically.
Resume On Ring:
•
With this feature set to
Enabled
, the computer will
turn on automatically when a ring is detected on the internal modem.
Resume On PME#:
•
This feature allows PCI cards that support this
capability to wake the system.
Resume On RTC:
•
You can specify a date and time at which the
computer will be turned on automatically. This can be either a single
event or a daily event.
USB Device Wakeup From S3:
•
This feature allows USB Device to wake
the System from S3.