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Texas Instruments 4000M User Manual

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5

Power Saving Utilities

This chapter tells you about

How to get the most work from a battery charge

BatteryPro controls for optimum power savings; and
the

SETPOWER

utility that enables you to control

BatteryPro power levels

SMARTDRV.EXE, a hard disk drive performance
enhancement utility

SPEED, which lets you change

CPU

operating speed for

optimum performance and battery power savings

Contents

Optimizing Battery Operation .......................................... 5-2

Suspend/Standby Modes ............................................ 5-3
Auto-Suspend Mode .................................................... 5-4
Real-Time Power Savings ............................................ 5-5
Power-Saving Levels.................................................... 5-5
Configuration Power Savings ....................................... 5-7

SETPOWER Utility ........................................................ 5-10
SMARTDRV.EXE Disk Caching Utility ........................... 5-11
SPEED Utility................................................................ 5-12

Show Speed Switch ................................................... 5-12
Using the SPEED Utility ............................................ 5-12

Power-Saving Utilities 5-1