Compaq Armada 7800 - Power Management Overview; Accessing Power Management

4-2 Using Power and Power Management
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Power Management Overview
The computer comes standard with a collection of power
management features that allow you to extend battery operating
time and conserve power.
Power management monitors most of the computer components
such as the hard drive, processor, and display. When a component
is inactive for a specified period of time, called a timeout, you can
use power management settings to shut it down temporarily. For
example, the timeout preset for hard drive inactivity is two
minutes. If a software application does not access information on
the hard drive for two minutes, the drive spins down until the next
time it is accessed.
Accessing Power Management
Click Start
Æ
Settings
Æ
Control Panel
Æ
double-click Power to
view or set the following in Power Properties.
If You Want To: Click This Tab:
Show Suspend on the Start menu
or battery meter on the taskbar
Power (Windows 95 only)
Set timeouts for drives when using
battery power or AC power
Disk Drives (Windows 95 only)
Enable/disable Energy Saver and
customize Energy Save monitor
values
AC Energy Saver (Windows NT
only)
Turn off power to the PC Card
slots
PC Card Modems (Windows 95
only)
Set battery conservation levels;
enable/disable warning beeps; set
timeouts
Battery Conservation Settings
Select Hibernation settings; set
Hibernation timeout
Hibernation
Display the status of installed
batteries
Battery Status
Set date and time to exit Suspend;
enable/disable Resume Timer
Resume Timer