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5. BIOS Setup
The Power Menu
The Power menu of the Setup program allows you to enable and adjust the advanced features of the
Notebook PC, which are designed to conserve power. Enabling these features will extend the life of
the battery pack between charges. To make changes to power management settings, select Power
Savings from the menu bar. The following menu appears:
The Power Menu Details
Power Savings: [Customized]
This option must be enabled to use any of the automatic power saving features. The configuration
options are: [Disabled] [Customized] [Maximum Power Savings] [Maximum Performance]
If this menu item is set to Disabled, power management features will not function regardless of
other field settings on this menu. The Customized option allows you to make your own selections in
the Power menu. When set to Maximum Power Savings, system power will be conserved to its
greatest amount. The next four fields will then be set to predefined values that ensure maximum
power savings.
When this field is set to Maximum Performance, best system performance is achieved with some
power conservation. The next four fields will then be set to predefined values that ensure maximum
power savings
Item Specific Help
PhoenixBIOS Setup Utility
Main Advanced Security Power Boot Exit
Power Savings: [Customized]
Suspend Mode: [Save To RAM]
Standby Timeout: [Off]
Auto Suspend Timeout: [Off]
Hard Disk Timeout: [Disabled]
Video Timeout: [Disabled]
Resume On Modem Ring: [On]
Beep On Battery Low: [Enabled]
Select Power Management
Mode. Choosing modes
changes system power
management settings .
Maximum Power Savings
conserves the greatest
amount of system power
while Maximum
Performance conserves
power but allows
greatest system
performance . To alter
these settings , choose
Customize . To turn off
power management ,
choose Disable.