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NA-811 Series Network Appliance User’s Manual

Award BIOS Utility

3.9 Power Management Setup

The Power Management Setup allows you to save energy of your

system effectively. It will shut down the hard disk and turn OFF video

display after a period of inactivity.

z ACPI Function

This item allows you to enable/disable the Advanced Configuration

and Power Management (ACPI). The function is always defaulted

in the “Enabled” mode.

z ACPI Suspend Type

This item specifies the power saving modes for ACPI function. If

your operating system supports ACPI, such as Windows 98SE,

Windows ME and Windows 2000, you can choose to enter the

Standby mode in S1 (POS) or S3 (STR) fashion through the setting

of this field. Options are:

[S1 (POS)] The S1 sleep mode is a low power state. In this

state, no system context is lost (CPU or chipset) and

hardware maintains all system contexts.

[S3 (STR)] The S3 sleep mode is a lower power state where

the information of system configuration and open

applications/files is saved to main memory that remains

powered while most other hardware components turn off to