Power Management - Fujitsu 565Tx User Manual

POWER MANAGEMENT

Your LifeBook 500 Series has many features for
conserving power. Some power savings features
are automatic and have no user control, such
as those for the internal modem, while others
depend on the user setting the parameter to
best suit their operating conditions. One power
saving feature is to turn the display b rightness
down,another is to limit the use of high power
devices,another is to activate an appropriate
power savings profile,another is to put your
notebook in Suspend mode when not actually
performing an operation. As with all mo bile,
battery-powered computers,there is a trade-off
between performance and power savings.
Internal power management for your notebook
is controlled from settings made in the BIOS
setup utility, the PowerPanel by Phoenix
Technologies,and the Windows
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panel. If no settings have been made in the
PowerPanel or Windows 95 Control panel then
the BIOS settings will be used. The PowerPanel
and Windows 95 Control panel have pre-set at
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the factory and will be active unless you disable
them. Complete descriptions of the BIOS setup
utility parameters are found in Section Three
of this guide. Power management parameters
are covered under the Power Savings menu.
(See pages 83–88.)
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Some particular power parameters are only
available for setup from one of these places,
others can be changed in any one of them.
Figure 2-15 Suspend/Resume Button
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Using the Suspend/Resume Button
When your notebook is active,the Suspend/
Resume button, (Figure 1-7 on page 5), can
be used to manually put your notebook into
Suspend mode, or into the Save-to-Disk mode.
Push the Suspend/Resume button, when your
notebook is active but no Access indicators are
On,and hold it in until it is acknowledged by
activation of the selected mode. Which mode
is activated depends on the settings of the BIOS
setup utility Power Savings menu. The default
is Suspend mode. (See page 84 for how to select
Save-to-Disk mode.)
If your notebook is suspended,pushing the
Suspend/Resume button will return your note-
book to active operation at the point it went
into suspension. The Suspend/Resume button
is located next to the Status Indicator panel
above the keyboard of your notebook. (Figure
1-7 on page 5.) You can tell whether or not your
system is in Suspend mode by looking at the
Power indicator. (See page 19.) If it is visible
and not flashing, your notebook is fully opera-
tional. If it is visible and flashing, your note-
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