Technical data

Digital HiNote VP 500 Service Guide
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The Power Menu
The Power Menu (Figure 2-6) allows you to enable and adjust the notebook’s power saving
features. Enabling these features will extend the battery run time.
Figure 2-6 The BIOS Setup Power Menu
Field
Settings
Description
Power Savings
Off
Customize *
Maximum Performance
Maximum Battery Life
Sets the Power Management Mode.
Disables all Power Management
Allows you to customize the Power
Management fields (Standby, Suspend, Suspend
to Disk, Hard Disk Time-out) to suit your
individual work needs.
Power Management fields will be set with pre-
defined values to provide best system
performance with some power conservation.
Power Management fields will be set with pre-
defined values to ensure maximum battery run
time.
AC Power
Save
On *
Off
When enabled all system power management is
enabled, when operating on AC power. If
disabled, all system power management is
disabled when operating on AC power.
Standby Time-
out
Disabled
1 Min.
2 Min.
3 Min. *
5 10, 15, 30 Min.
Indicates the amount of time the system needs
to be idle before entering Standby mode.
In order to make customized changes to this
field, Power Savings must be set to Customize.
Suspend Time-
out
Disabled
1 Min.
2 Min.
3 Min. *
5, 10, 15, 30 Min.
Indicates the amount of time the system needs
to be idle before entering Suspend (to RAM)
mode.
Power Savings must be Customize to change
these values.
Suspend-to-
Disk
Time-out
Disabled
1, 2, 3, 5 Min.
10 Min. *
Indicates the amount of time the system needs
to be idle before entering Suspend-to-Disk
mode.
In order to make customized changes to this