Acer AcerPower SV Service Manual - Power Management Setup

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Chapter 2

Power Management Setup

The Power Management menu lets you configure your system to most effectively save energy while 

operating in a manner consistent with your own style of computer use.  

The following screen shows the Power Management parameters and their default settings:

The following table describes the parameters found in this menu.  Settings in boldface are the default and 

suggested settings.

Parameter

Description

Options

ACPI Function

This item is to activate the ACPI (Advanced 

Configuration and Power Management 

Interface) Function.  If your operating 

system is ACPI-aware, such as Windows 

98SE/2000/Me, select Enabled.  

Enabled

Disabled

ACPI Suspend Type

This item specifies the power saving modes 

for ACPI function.  S1(POS): The S1 sleep 

mode is a low power state. In this state, no 

system context (CPU or chipset) is lost and 

hardware maintains all system context.  S3 

(STR): The S3 sleep mode is s power-down 

state in which power is supplied only to 

essential components such as main 

memory and wake-capable devices and all 

system context is saved to main memory.  

The information stored in memory will be 

used to restore the PC to the previous state 

when an wake-up event occurs.  S1&S3: 

Both S1 and S3 will be adopted.  

S3

S1

S1&S3