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Chapter 3: power management, Overview, Power management – Eurocom X8 User Manual

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Chapter 3: Power Management

Overview

To conserve power, especially when using the battery, your computer power man-
agement conserves power by controlling individual components of the computer
(the monitor and hard disk drive) or the whole system. This chapter covers:

The Power Sources
Turning On the Computer
Power Plans
Power-Saving States
Configuring the Power Buttons
Battery Information

The computer uses enhanced power saving techniques to give the operating system
(OS) direct control over the power and thermal states of devices and processors. For
example, this enables the OS to set devices into low-power states based on user set-
tings and information from applications.

OS Note

Power management

functions will vary slight-

ly depending on your

operating system. For

more information it is

best to refer to the user’s

manual of your operat-

ing system.