4 menu power, Overview – Siemens PC 670 User Manual

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Configuring the Computing Unit in BIOS Setup

Release 04/02

5-24

Panel PC 670 Computing Unit, Equipment Manual

5.1.4

Menu Power

Overview

This menu has the following structure.

PhoenixBIOS Setup Utility

Item Specific Help

ESC

Exit

Select Item

Select Menu

+ / –

Select

Change Values

Sub-Menu

F9
F10

Setup Defaults
Save and Exit

Power Savings:

Enter

Help

F1

Advanced

Security

Boot Sequence

Version

Exit

Main

[

Disabled

]

Power

APM (Advanced Power
Management) allows APM
aware software to manage
power savings, if enabled

APM:

[Enabled]

Disabled

Customized
Maximum Power Savings
Maximum Performance

Not valid for ACPI
Operating Systems

Standby Timeout:

Off

Hard Disk Timeout:

[Disabled]

Figure 5-17

“Power” Menu

The Power menu offers a number of power saver modes for environmentally
friendly computing:

APM

(Advanced
Power
Management)

[Enabled]

The operating system can shut down system
resources when they are not needed.

[Disabled]

The operating system is denied APM access.

Power Savings

[Disabled]

No power-saving functions

[Customize, Maximum Power Savings, Maximum Performance]

freely adjustable power saving
functions for maximum and minimum power saving
functions.
You can set the parameters for Standby/Suspend
Timeouts and Fixed Disk Timeout or they set
automatically to their defaults.

Standby
Timeout

[Off]

No Standby mode

[30 seconds or

...minutes after your PC enters standby mode.

1, 2, 4, 8, 12, 16]

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