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ASUS A7N266 User’s Manual70

4. BIOS SETUP

Power Menu

4.5 Power Menu

The Power menu allows you to reduce power consumption. This feature turns off the

video display and shuts down the hard disk after a period of inactivity.

Video Off Option [Suspend -> Off ]

This field determines when to activate the video off feature for monitor

power management. Configuration options: [Always On] [Suspend -> Off]

Video Off Method [DPMS OFF]

This field defines the video off features. The DPMS (Display Power

Management System) feature allows the BIOS to control the video display

card if it supports the DPMS feature. [Blank Screen] only blanks the screen

(use this for monitors without power management or “green” features. If set

up in your system, your screen saver will not display with [Blank Screen]

selected). [V/H SYNC+Blank] blanks the screen and turns off vertical and

horizontal scanning. Configuration options: [Blank Screen] [V/H

SYNC+Blank] [DPMS Standby] [DPMS Suspend] [DPMS OFF] [DPMS

Reduce ON]

HDD Power Down [Disabled]

Shuts down any IDE hard disk drives in the system after a period of

inactivity as set in this user-configurable field. This feature does not affect

SCSI hard drives. Configuration options: [Disabled] [1 Min] [2 Min] [3

Min]...[15 Min]