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4 BIOS Overview
Power Saving and Ergonometry
ACPI Power Management Modes (Windows 2000 and Windows98 SE only)
•Standby
In Windows 2000 for example, you can enter this low power state by
clicking
Start Ö Shut Down,thenselectingStand by and clicking OK.In
this mode, the LED on the PC’s font panel blinks green.
There are two forms of Standby: normal (s1) and Suspend to RAM (s3),
which is a lower power consumption state than normal Standby. You can
use Suspend to RAM by enabling this feature in the PC’s Setup Program.
To do this, press
F2 during startup, then set Suspend to RAM in the Power
menu to
enabled
. If this feature is disabled, the normal (s1) Standby is
used.
•Hibernate(s4)
This is available in Windows 200 only and is lower power state than
Standby. In Windows 2000, you can enter this low power state by clicking
Start Ö Shut Down, then selecting Hibernate and clicking OK.Inthis
mode, the LED on the PC’s font panel is off.