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Back to Contents Page Power Management Settings: Dell™ Latitude™ CPi A-Series System User's Guide Experimenting With Power Conservation | Using Key Combinations | Closing the Display | Suspend Mode | Suspend-to-Disk Mode | Standby Mode | Power Management Properties for Windows 98 Experimenting With Power Conservation In general, the lower the value you set for each power conservation feature, the longer the battery's charge lasts. On the other hand, setting high values tends to optimize the computer's performance. To evaluate the way that different settings affect how long you can operate the computer on battery power versus the relative efficiency of how the software performs, experiment as follows: Use the computer with all the options set at their default values. Use the computer with all the options disabled or set to Off. Use the computer with all the options set to their minimum or maximum values. Using Key Combinations Table 1 identifies the power management key combinations. NOTE: To use key combinations on an external keyboard, enable the External Hot Key option in the System Setup program and use instead of . Table 1. Key Combinations to Activate/Deactivate Features Feature Turn off display Turn off hard-disk drive Suspend mode Activate/Deactivate To activate, press . * To deactivate, move the cursor or press a key on the built-in or external keyboard. (If nothing happens, the computer may be in suspend mode. Press the power button to resume normal operation.) To activate, press . * Automatically deactivates when the hard-disk drive is accessed. NOTE: If a modular hard drive is installed in the C/Dock media bay, pressing will not turn off the hard-disk drive. To activate, press . To deactivate, press the power button.

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Power Management Settings: Dell
™
Latitude
™
CPi A-Series
System User's Guide
Experimenting With Power Conservation
|
Using Key Combinations
|
Closing the Display
|
Suspend Mode
|
Suspend-to-Disk Mode
|
Standby Mode
|
Power Management Properties for Windows 98
Experimenting With Power Conservation
In general, the lower the value you set for each power conservation feature, the longer the battery's charge
lasts. On the other hand, setting high values tends to optimize the computer's performance.
To evaluate the way that different settings affect how long you can operate the computer on battery power
versus the relative efficiency of how the software performs, experiment as follows:
Use the computer with all the options set at their default values.
Use the computer with all the options disabled or set to
Off
.
Use the computer with all the options set to their minimum or maximum values.
Using Key Combinations
Table 1
identifies the power management key combinations.
NOTE: To use key combinations on an external keyboard, enable the
External Hot Key
option in the
System Setup program and use <Scroll Lk> instead of <FN>.
Table 1. Key Combinations to Activate/Deactivate Features
Feature
Activate/Deactivate
Turn off display
To activate, press <FN><D>. *
To deactivate, move the cursor or press a key on the built-in or external
keyboard. (If nothing happens, the computer may be in suspend mode.
Press the power button to resume normal operation.)
Turn off hard-disk drive
To activate, press <FN><H>. *
Automatically deactivates when the hard-disk drive is accessed.
NOTE: If a modular hard drive is installed in the C/Dock media bay,
pressing <FN><H> will not turn off the hard-disk drive
.
Suspend mode
To activate, press <FN><Esc>.
To deactivate, press the power button.