Specifications

Chapter 2-9
Critical low battery - - - -
Field ‘Process Required’ identifies that further process for the occurred events must be
processed during wake up or resume procedure.
*1: Hot keys are not wake up source of standby, suspend to RAM and Hibernate states.
*2: Activity of the USB device is dependent on the driver support.
Power Button
The power button will wake the system from any low power state as described in the Power
Button section.
Real Time Clock Alarm
The Real Time Clock alarm interrupt will wake the system from standby, suspend.
Power Management – ACPI
Introductions
The Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) is a well-specified power
management and configuration mechanism. It evolves the existing collection of power
management codes, APM, PnP BIOS, ..etc.
Power State Transition Diagram
The state transition diagram is identical to the one in APM mode.
Time-outs while On AC Power
OS determines the behavior of the feature.
Embedded controller
The keyboard controller will act as the ACPI embedded controller and support the ACPI EC
protocol and interface.
SCI/SMI events
All ACPI OS controllable events will be triggered as SCI. Otherwise SMI will be triggered.
PC2001
The notebook must meet Microsoft Logo requirements in accordance with the PC2001 Design
Guide and the Microsoft Logo test programs.
Miscellaneous Features
Single BIOS ROM
The system BIOS and Keyboard BIOS share one single flash ROM. The size of the flash
ROM is 512KB.
USB Support
This feature allows the use of a USB keyboard to access BIOS Setup and to be used in DOS
without additional drivers.
IDE interface
The IDE device supported master channel.
Flash utility – one BIOS ROM only
The flash utility can be used to program both system and keyboard BIOS at the same time.