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Acnodes PC 6170 User Manual

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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.

SBC83810 BIOS Setup

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