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Suspend to disk is really another way of turning your notebook off. When you
suspend to disk, the contents of your notebook's memory are copied to your hard
disk drive. When the contents of the memory have been safely stored to disk, your
notebook turns off. The next time the notebook is turned on after a suspend to
disk, the data on the hard disk is quickly read back into memory. In just a few
moments, your notebook appears exactly as it was when you last suspended to
disk.
Suspend to disk is very useful for Windows users who like to have many different
programs open and iconized on the Windows desktop. It can take quite a few
minutes to get a busy Windows desktop up and running, and then you have to shut
down each program one by one when you want to turn your notebook off. With
Suspend Data To set to Disk in Setup, you can simply press the suspend hot keys
and your custom Windows environment is saved to disk.
Suspend-to-disk Partition
In order to suspend to disk, you must have a special suspend-to-disk partition on
your hard disk drive. This partition must be created on your hard disk drive before
you begin installing your notebook's software.
Your notebook is pre-installed with a suspend-to-disk partition with a capacity of
51 MB. This is large enough to support a suspend to disk when the notebook is
installed with 48 MB of memory or less. If you happen to destroy this partition,
you will need to create a new suspend-to-disk partition. See the instructions in the
Re-installation Instructions.
Entering Suspend Mode
Your notebook will enter suspend mode under the following conditions:
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If the time you set in Auto Suspend After has passed with no activity.
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If the time you set in Auto Save to Disk has passed with no activity.
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If the display panel is closed.
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If the suspend hot keys Fn + F12 are pressed.
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If Suspend is selected in the Windows Start menu.
Caution: Never close the display panel while your notebook is resuming
from the suspend mode.