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7 power menu – Siemens SIMATIC PANEL PC 877 User Manual

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17.6 BIOS setup

SIMATIC Panel PC 877
Operating instructions, Release 07/2006, A5E00877780-01

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17.6.7

Power menu

This menu has the following layout.

Figure 17-17 "Power" menu (Example)


The Power menu offers a number of power saver modes for environmentally friendly

computing:

[Disabled]

no energy-saving functions

Power Savings

[Customized,

Maximum

Power

Savings,

Maximum

Performance]

freely selectable or default values for min./max. energy saving

functions. You can set the parameters for Standby Time-out

and Fixed Disk Timeout, or they are set automatically to their

defaults.

[Disabled]

The hard disk is not switched off.

Hard Disk Timeout

[6, 8, 10, 15]

Minutes after the last access the hard disk drive is switched

off. The next time it is accessed, the hard disk starts spinning

again after a brief delay.