Acnodes PC 6170 - Manual (Page 61)

PC 6170 User’s Manual
ACPI Function
This item allows you to enable/disable the Advanced Configuration and
Power Management (ACPI). The options available are Enabled,
Disabled.
Power Management
This option allows you to select the type (or degree) of power saving for
Doze, Standby, and Suspend modes. The table below describes each
power management mode:
Max Saving Maximum power savings. Only Available for SL CPUs.
Inactivity period is 1 minute i n each mode.
User Define Sets each mode individually. Select time-out periods in
the PM Timers section, following.
Min Saving Minimum power savings. Inactivity period is 1 hour in
each mode (except the hard drive).
Disabled Default value
PM Control by APM
If Advanced Power Management (APM) is installed on your system,
selecting Yes gives better power savings. The default value is “Yes”.
No System BIOS will ignore A PM when power managing the
system
System BIOS will wait for APM’s prompt before it enters any
Yes
PM mode (i.e., DOZE, S TANDBY or SUSPEND).
Note: If AP M is installed or if there i s a task running, even
when the timer has timed out, the A PM will not prompt the
BIOS to put the system into any power saving mode!
NO T E : If AP M is not inst alled, this opti on has no effect.
Video Off Method
Determines the manner in which the monitor is blanked.
V/H SYNC+Blank Turns OFF vertical and horizontal
synchronization ports and writes blanks to the
video buffer
S elect this opti on if your monitor supports the
Display Power Managem ent Signaling (DP MS)
DPMS standard of the Video Electronics S tandards A
ssociation (VESA). Use the software suppl ied for
your video subsystem to select video power
management values.
Blank Screen S ystem only writes blanks to the video buffer.
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