Winbook XP - Page 27

Accessing Power Management Setup
[WinBook XP]
You can call up the Power Management screen in two ways. In DOS, you can run System Setup
by holding down the ‘CTRL’ and ‘ALT’ keys and typing ‘S’. This brings up Page 1, Standard
Setup. Then press the ‘PgDn’ key to switch from Page 1 to Page 2, Power Management Setup.
You can access the Power Management Setup screen (only) at any time under DOS or Windows.
When you use the “Setup” ‘Fn’ + ‘F8’ command, the Power Management Setup screen will
appear. You can use this command to tailor your power management setting on the fly without
having to exit to DOS to run the system Setup program, and without having to re-boot the
computer.
When you’re finished, you can exit Power Management Setup and return to where you left off by
pressing the ‘Esc’ and then the ‘F4’ key. In this situation, the system will Resume, rather than
reboot, as it would if you were running s System Setup session.
There are sixteen items in the Power Management screen. We’ll explain them here in order, then
talk about how to configure the options to produce either more power saving or faster
performance. For average users, the WinBook default power management settings should
provide a good trade-off between snappy performance and long battery life.
The power management scheme allows you to configure each feature independently. You can set
the interval of time after which a feature will activate for many of the items. The following chart
lists the items on the Power Management screen. We’ve shown a chart here rather than the
screen, because the chart allows us to show you all the options for each field, rather than just
one. There are instructions at the bottom of the Setup screen explaining how to navigate within
the program.
Power Management Settings