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Operating on battery power – Acer 365 Series User Manual

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Operating on Battery Power

Operating on Battery Power

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maintaining your communication connections.

Standby Mode

Standby Mode

The computer consumes very low power in
standby mode. Data remains intact in the system
memory until the battery is drained.

There is one necessary condition for the computer
to enter standby mode:

q Heuristic Power Management Mode must be

set to

[ENABLED]

.

There are five ways to enter standby mode:

q Pressing the sleep hot key Fn-F7 ( )

q If the waiting time determined by the

computer’s HPM unit elapses without any
system activity, the computer goes into
standby mode.

q Closing the display cover

q If the computer is about to enter hibernation

mode, but the hibernation file is invalid or not
present.

q Invoked by the operating system power saving

modes

Note: If the computer beeps but does not enter
standby mode after pressing the sleep hot key, it
means the operating system will not allow the