Dell Inspiron 2000 - Manual (Page 54)

Boot Screen
Power Switch Mode Specifies whether the power button operates in On/Off or Suspend/Resume mode.
When set to On/Off, the power button turns the computer on and off. When set to Suspend/Resume, the power
button suspends or resumes the computer.
PM Control Enables or disables all power management features for the battery only or for both the battery and the AC power
adapter. AC/Battery enables the power management features regardless of power source. Battery Only (the
default) enables power management features only while the computer is running on battery power. Disabled
completely disables the power management features.
Power Management Customized (the default) allows you to control each power management setting. Maximum Battery Life
conserves the maximum amount of system power and sets Video Timeout, Hard Disk Timeout, and Auto
Suspend Timeout to 2 minutes each. Maximum Performance conserves power but allows the greatest system
performance and sets Video Timeout to 10 minutes, Hard Disk Timeout to 5 minutes, and Auto Suspend
Timeout to 10 minutes.
Video Timeout Lets you determine how long the keyboard, touch pad, and PS/2 mouse remain idle (no I/O activity) before the
display and backlight turn off. The display and backlight turn on again at the first attempt to access the keyboard,
touch pad, PS/2 mouse, or display memory. Settings are Off, 30 Minutes, 20 Minutes, 15 Minutes, 10 Minutes,
5 Minutes, and 2 Minutes.To increase battery operating time, set this option to a lower number of minutes. To use
this option, you must set
Power Management to Customized.
Hard Disk Timeout Lets you determine how long the hard-disk drive remains idle (no I/O activity) before the drive motor shuts down.
The drive motor starts up again at the first attempt to access the hard-disk drive. Settings are Off, 30 Minutes, 20
Minutes, 10 Minutes, 5 Minutes, and 2 Minutes. To increase battery operating time, set this option to a lower
number of minutes. To use this option, you must set
Power Management to Customized.
Auto Suspend Timeout Lets you determine how long the computer remains idle (no I/O activity) before before activating suspend-to-disk
(S2D) mode. Settings are Off, 30 Minutes, 20 Minutes, 10 Minutes, 5 Minutes, 2 Minutes, and 1 Minute. To
increase battery operating time, set this option to a lower number of minutes. To use this option, you must set
Power Management to Customized.
Battery Low Suspend Sets the computer to enter suspend (or standby ) mode when the battery is low. Options are Enabled (the default)
and Disabled. Disabled turns off the low-battery suspend function, but the Auto Suspend Timeout setting is still
operative.
Suspend Mode When set to Save to RAM (default), the computer conserves battery power by entering standby mode by stopping
almost all computer activity, but leaves the computer ready to resume operations in seconds. Resume normal
computer activity by pressing the power button (the computer may take several seconds to return to normal
operation).
When set to Save to Disk, the computer copies all system data to a reserved area on the hard-disk drive and then
turns off all power to the computer. When the computer resumes normal operation, the same programs will be
running and the same files will be open that were loaded before you activated this mode. Use save-to-disk
suspend mode to conserve battery power or to preserve system data by quickly saving it to the hard-disk drive if
you are about to run out of battery power.
Resume on Modem Ring Setting this option to On tells the computer to resume normal operation when an incoming call is detected by the
modem and the computer is in
standby mode. The default is Disabled. To use this option, you must set Suspend
Mode to Save to RAM.
Resume On Time When the Resume On Time option is set to On, a computer in standby mode resumes normal operation at a time
specified in the Resume Time field. The default is Off.
To use this option, you must set Suspend Mode to Save to RAM.
Resume Time Resume Time appears on the screen only when Resume On Time is set to On.
Lets you specify a time when the computer resumes from standby mode to normal operation. To use this option,
you must set Suspend Mode to Save to RAM.
Auto Dim Extends battery life by setting the computer to automatically decrease the brightness of the display when running on
battery power. Options are Enabled (the default) and Disabled.
Lid Close Specifies how the computer will respond when the display lid is closed. When set to Active (the default), the
computer switches the display image to an
attached monitor . When set to Suspend, the computer enters standby
mode.