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IBM-AUSTRIA - PC-HW-Support 30 Aug 1999 |
Power Management (300-700 Series)
Power Management 300-700 Series
Power Management
Power management reduces the power consumption of certain components of the
computer such as the system power supply, processor, hard disk drives, and some
monitors (if monitor supports DPMS). Advanced Power Management and Rapid Resume Manager are features of some
personal computers.
Advanced Power Management
Energy-saving settings can be viewed and changed by using the Advanced Power Management
menu in the Configuration/Setup Utility program.
If a device, such a monitor, does not have power-management
capabilities,
it can be damaged when exposed to a reduced-power state
Before making energy-saving selections for the monitor, check the documentation supplied with the monitor to
see if it supports Display Power Management Signaling (DPSM).
Automatic Hardware Power Management Features:
There are three levels of specified time that the computer must be inactive before the power management options that are
selected take effect. Select the amount of time that is offered within each level.
- Level 1 Set time from 5 minutes to 4 hours.
- Level 2 Set time from 10 minutes to 5 hours.
- Level 3 Set time from 15 minutes to 6 hours.
At each level, you can define the amount of energy savings by specifying values for the following options:
- System Power:
- Select ON for the computer to remain on.
- Select Off for the computer to shut down.
- Processor Speed:
Set the microprocessor to be disabled, or run at 1, 10, 25 or 50 percent
of its internal clock speed.
- Display:
Set display to be disabled or to be reduced at these power states:
- Standby: Screen is blank, but can be restored immediately when any activity is detected.
- Suspend: Monitor uses less power than in Standby mode. Screen image is restored after a few seconds
when any activity is detected.
- Off: Monitor power is off. Press Monitor power button to restore power. On some monitors, you might have
to depress the power button twice.
Setting Automatic Hardware Power Management Features
- Start the Configuration/Setup Utility program
- Select Advanced Power Management from the Configuration/Setup Utility program menu.
- Be sure APM BIOS Mode is set to Enabled. If it is not, press Left Arrow (<) or Right Arrow (>) to change the setting.
- Select Automatic Hardware Power Management.
- Set Automatic Hardware Power Management to Enabled
- Select the values for the three levels of power management (system power, processor speed, and display), as necessary.
- Set Hard Disk to Enabled or Disabled.
NOTE: This does not apply to SCSI drives.
- Press Esc twice to return to the Configuration/Setup Utility program menu.
- Before you exit from the program, select Save Settings from the Configuration/Setup Utility program menu.
- To exit from the Configuration/Setup Utility program, press Esc and follow the
instructions on the screen.
Automatic Power-On features:
The Automatic Power-On features within the Advanced Power Management menu allow to enable and disable features that
turn the computer on automatically.
- Serial Port Ring Detect: With this feature set to Enabled and an external modem connected
to the serial port, the computer will turn automatically when a ring is detected on the modem.
- Modem Ring Detect: With this feature set to Enabled,
the computer will turn automatically when a ring is detected on the internal modem.
- Wake Up on Alarm: You can specify a date and time at which the computer will be turned on automatically. This can
be either a single event or a daily event.
- Wake on LAN: If the computer has a properly configured token-ring or Ethernet LAN adapter card that is Wake on LAN-enabled
and there is remote network management software, you can use the IBM-developed Wake on LAN feature.
When you set Wake on LAN to Enabled, the computer will turn on when it receives a specific signal from another computer on the local
area network (LAN). For further information, see 'Wake on LAN'.
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