User's Manual Chapter 4

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If you are operating your notebook on battery power, a fully-charged battery
can maintain a Suspend-to-RAM for many hours.
Suspend-to-Disk
Suspend-to-Disk is really another way of turning off your computer. When
you suspend to disk, the contents of your computer’s memory are copied to
your hard disk drive as a file. When the contents of the memory have been
safely stored to disk, your computer turns off. The next time the computer is
turned on after suspend to disk, the file on the hard disk is quickly read back
into memory. In just a few moments, your computer appears exactly as it was
when you last suspended to disk.
Suspend to disk is very useful for Windows users who like to have many
different programs open and ionized on the Windows desktop. It can take quite
a few minutes to get a busy Windows desktop up and running, and then you
have to shut down each program one by one when you want to turn off your
computer.
NOTE: Don’t use suspend to disk function while transferring files at
network. It may cause your data loss.
Suspend-to-Disk Partition
Suspending to disk requires a special disk partition set up for that purpose.
This partition has already been pre-installed on your notebook. The pre-
installed partition is large enough to accommodate most system memory
requirements. If you expand the system memory and get an error message
when you suspend to disk, you will need to increase the size of this partition.
You should not attempt to partition your hard drive unless you are an
experienced user.
Initiating a Suspend mode
Your notebook will suspend fewer than four conditions:
1. You can click on the Suspend button in the Windows Start menu. The
system will turn to suspend mode.
2. Pressing the hot key [Fn]+[F2] combination will suspend the system to
disk.
3. After an automatic suspend timeout, set in the Power menu of the System
Configuration Utility, elapses.
4. After the screen cover of the notebook is closed and no alternative display
has been connected to the system, the system will suspend to RAM or to
disk, depending on the settings in the System Configuration Utility.