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3.7 POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP

The Power Management Setup allows you to save energy of your system effectively. It will shut down the hard
disk and turn off video display after a period of inactivity.

ACPI

When using AT power, please select Disable.

Power Management

This field allows you to select the type of power saving management modes. There are four selections for Power
Management.

Min. Power Saving

Minimum power management

Max. Power Saving

Maximum power management.

User Define

Each of the ranges is from 1 min. to 1hr. Except
for HDD Power Down, which ranges from 1 min.
to 15 min.
(Default)

NOTE:

In order to enable the CPU overheat protection feature, the Power Management field should not be
set to Disabled.


PM Control by APM

This field allows you to use the Advanced Power Management device to enhance the Max. Power Saving mode
and stop the CPU’s internal clock. If the Max. Power Saving is not enabled, this will be preset to NO.

Video Off Method

This field defines the Video Off features. There are three options.
V/H SYNC + Blank Default setting, blank the screen and turn off vertical and horizontal scanning.

DPMS

Allows the BIOS to control the video display card if it supports the DPMS feature.

Blank Screen

This option only writes blanks to the video buffer.


Video Off After

As the system moves from lesser to greater power-saving modes, select the mode in which you want the monitor
to blank.