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Power 
Management
Enables or disables 
Fan Always On
, 
Inactivity
 
Timer
, and 
Hard
 
Drive
 options.
Fan Always 
On
When set to 
Yes
 (default), the fan remains on as 
long as the system is turned on. When set to 
No
, 
the fan turns off in 
Suspend
 mode.
Inactivity 
Timer
Determines the period of system inactivity 
(between 1 and 120 minutes) before certain sys-
tem components enter a low-power mode. To dis-
able power management, leave this option set to 
Off
 (default).
NOTE: Leave this option set to 
Off
 if your operat-
ing system has power management controls.
Hard Drive
When set to 
Enabled
 (default), 
Hard
 
Drive
 allows 
most EIDE hard-disk drives to automatically 
switch into low-power mode after a specified 
period of system inactivity (called a 
time-out
). The 
time-out period is set with the 
Inactivity
 
Timer
 
option. When 
Hard
 
Drive
 is set to 
Disabled
, hard-
disk drives do not switch into low-power mode.