HP Vectra VL400 User Manual

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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

, then selecting

Stand 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

. In this

mode, the LED on the PC’s font panel is off.

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