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You may want to experiment to find the
settings that work best for you. You can access
the Power Management screen (without
running Setup) by pressing Fn F8, so you can
adjust your settings at any time.
You should not, however, change the Power
Management and Low Battery options.
These features protect your data when your
battery is about to run out.
For more information about how your power
management features work, see “Using Power
Management“ in Chapter 2.
Using Instant On and Saving to Disk
The Low Battery option in Setup allows you
to select Suspend or Save to HDD, which
perform the following functions
Mode
Description
Suspend
The computer continues to use a very
small amount of power. If you select
Suspend ad leave your system
suspended, the battery eventually runs
down and your data will be lost.
Save to HDD
Contents of your system and video
memory are saved to a special partition on
your hard disk drive. Even if your battery
MS down, your data is protected.
Instant On works through the same process as
Save to HDD, except that your data is saved to
disk when you press the Suspend/Resume
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