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Controlling Power Management
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Power Management commands
PowerPanel™ also provides power managemen t comm ands that you can use to
activate specific power management functions and to control power for a specific
device. You can use these commands to override a profile setting or initiate an
immediate action.
Conserving battery power
When using your notebook with a battery, the LCD display and the hard drive
can be set to switch off automatically to conserve battery power.
See “Power Management profiles” for more information.
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Standby
Puts the system into Standby mode, a power management state that
saves the state of the system and peripheral devices in memory
(RAM). Power consumption reduces to a minimum , and the sy stem
remains on. To return the system to the active state, press any key on
your computer. Your notebook is preset to enter Standby mode after
25 minutes.
Hibernate
Provides for the lowest level of power consumption. The system
writes the state of the system and peri pheral devices to the hard disk
and turns off the system power. To return the system to the original
state, use the power button to turn on pow er. The system saves the
data in the Save to Disk Partition on the hard drive.