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MiniStation All-in-One Petit Board User’s Manual
Award BIOS Setup
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Max Saving
Maximum power savings. Only Available for SL
CPUs. Inactivity period is 1 minute in each mode.
User Define
Sets each mode individually. Select time-out
periods in the PM Timers section, following.
Min Saving
Minimum power savings. Inactivity period is 1
hour in each mode (except the hard drive).
Disabled
Default value
z PM Control by APM
If Advanced Power Management (APM) is installed on your system, selecting Yes gives better power savings.
The default value is “Yes”.
No
System BIOS will ignore APM when power managing
the system
Yes
System BIOS will wait for APM’s prompt before it enters
any PM mode (i.e., DOZE, STANDBY or SUSPEND).
Note: If APM is installed or if there is a task running,
even when the timer has timed out, the APM will
not prompt the BIOS to put the system into any
power saving mode!
NOTE: If APM is not installed, this option has no effect.
z Video Off Method
Determines the manner in which the monitor is blanked.
V/H SYNC+Blank
Turns OFF vertical and horizontal
synchronization ports and writes blanks to
the video buffer
DPMS
Select this option if your monitor supports
the Display Power Management Signaling
(DPMS) standard of the Video Electronics
Standards Association (VESA). Use the
software supplied for your video subsystem
to select video power management values.
Blank Screen
System only writes blanks to the video
buffer.
z Video Off After
As the system moves from lesser to greater power-saving modes, select the mode in which you want the monitor
to blank off. The default value is “Standby”.
NA
System BIOS will never turn off the
screen
Suspend
Screen off when system is in SUSPEND
mode
Standby
Screen off when system is in STANDBY
mode
Doze
Screen off when system is in DOZE
mode
NOTE: Green monitors detect the V/H SYNC signals to turn off its electron gun
z Modem Use IRQ
3, 4, 5, 7, 9,
10, 11, NA
For external modem, 3 or 4 will be used for
card type modem. It is up to card definition.
Default is 3.
z Doze Mode
After the selected period of system inactivity (1 minute to 1 hour), the CPU clock runs at slower speed while all