User Manual

Power Management
Power-Saving States 3 - 7
3
Hibernate
Hibernate uses the least amount of power of all the power-saving states and saves
all of your information on a part of the hard disk before it turns the system off. If a
power failure occurs the system can restore your work from the hard disk; if a power
failure occurs when work is saved only to memory, then the work will be lost. Hi-
bernate will also return you to where you last left off within seconds. You should
put your mobile PC into Hibernate if you will not use the computer for a period of
time, and will not have the chance to charge the battery.
Shut down
You should Shut down the computer if you plan to install new hardware (don’t for-
get to remove the battery and follow all the safet y instructions in Chapter 6), plan
to be away from the computer for several days, or you do not need it to wake up and
run a scheduled task. Returning to full oper ation from Shut down takes longer than
from Sleep or Hibernate.

Silent Mode
(Model A
Design I Only)
You can use Silent
Mode to reduce power
consumption and fan
noise.
Use the Silent Mode
hot key to toggle
this mode on/off.
On screen visual indica-
tors will display the Si-
lent Mode status (see
Table 1 - 5, on page 1 -
14
).
Note Silent Mode may
reduce computer perfor-
mance.
Figure 3 - 3
Lock Button menu