Specifications

Using Your Notebook 3-3

Auto Suspend to Disk Determines whether or not the notebook suspends to disk if

battery voltage drops to the critical level during Suspend to RAM.

PCMCIA Power when Suspend to RAM Determines whether power is applied to

the PCMCIA slot while the notebook is in the Suspend to RAM state. You can

disable it to save power, but any PCMCIA card will be disabled when a Suspend to

RAM occurs, and may require re-initialization when operation resumes.

Modem Power when Suspend to RAM Determines whether the modem is powered

on during the Suspend to RAM.

Battery Level The % change level of the battery is displayed here.

Suspend Mode

Suspend mode is the lowest power consumption level your notebook can sustain.

Two different suspend modes are Suspend to RAM and Suspend to Disk. As a

default your system is set to Suspend to RAM. You can program the notebook to

suspend to RAM or to disk by using the Suspend Mode option in the Setup Utility.

Suspend to RAM

When the notebook suspends to RAM, an alerting beep sounds, and the state of the

notebook is stored to RAM. All but a few essential components of your notebook

power down. Pressing any key allows the notebook to return to exactly the same

state it was in when suspend mode was activated. You can use Suspend to RAM

when you have to pause your computing but plan to resume working after a short

interval, since operation resumes almost immediately.

The RAM contents are preserved using the AC power supply or the

battery. If all power sources are disconnected while the unit is in Suspend

to RAM mode, the RAM contents will be lost.

Suspend to Disk

You can also configure your notebook to suspend to disk. The system preserves all

the running application programs as a file in a “suspend-to-disk partition” on the

hard disk drive. The notebook then turns off automatically. When you next turn on

the notebook, it reads the file from the suspend-to-disk partition back into memory,

so that your notebook is returned to exactly the same state it was in when you

suspended it.