HP Pavilion n3402 HP Pavilion Notebook N3400 Series - Reference Guide - Page 52

System standby, Hibernate

Page 52 highlights

Traveling with Your Computer Managing Power Consumption System standby Action When Resume Turns off the display and hard disk drive. Saves current session to RAM. Fn+F3 or Fn+F4 or Start, Shut Down, Standby. Press the blue power button to return to your current session. System standby can also occur automatically when the timeout setting in the Power Management Properties window is reached. (In Windows 98 and ME, there is no difference between Standby and Suspend.) Hibernate Action When Resume Saves the current session to disk, then shuts down. Provides maximum power savings while still allowing you to recover the current session. In order to assure maximum power savings, the timeout setting in the BIOS Setup Utility has been set to the default of 20 minutes. Press Fn+F5. Press the blue power button to recover your current session. This takes several seconds. Hibernate can also occur automatically when: • Battery power reaches a critically low level (see "To respond to a low-battery warning" on page 57). • The timeout setting in the BIOS Setup utility is reached (default is 2 hours after System standby occurs). Off Action When Resume Turning off your computer provides maximum power savings. The current session is not saved and unsaved data will be lost. Start, Shut Down, Shut down. Press the blue power button to start a new session. This will take several seconds. 52 User's Guide

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • 15
  • 16
  • 17
  • 18
  • 19
  • 20
  • 21
  • 22
  • 23
  • 24
  • 25
  • 26
  • 27
  • 28
  • 29
  • 30
  • 31
  • 32
  • 33
  • 34
  • 35
  • 36
  • 37
  • 38
  • 39
  • 40
  • 41
  • 42
  • 43
  • 44
  • 45
  • 46
  • 47
  • 48
  • 49
  • 50
  • 51
  • 52
  • 53
  • 54
  • 55
  • 56
  • 57
  • 58
  • 59
  • 60
  • 61
  • 62
  • 63
  • 64
  • 65
  • 66
  • 67
  • 68
  • 69
  • 70
  • 71
  • 72
  • 73
  • 74
  • 75
  • 76
  • 77
  • 78
  • 79
  • 80
  • 81
  • 82
  • 83
  • 84
  • 85
  • 86
  • 87
  • 88
  • 89
  • 90
  • 91
  • 92
  • 93
  • 94
  • 95
  • 96
  • 97
  • 98
  • 99
  • 100
  • 101
  • 102
  • 103
  • 104
  • 105
  • 106
  • 107
  • 108
  • 109
  • 110
  • 111
  • 112
  • 113
  • 114
  • 115
  • 116
  • 117
  • 118
  • 119
  • 120
  • 121
  • 122
  • 123
  • 124
  • 125
  • 126
  • 127
  • 128
  • 129
  • 130

Traveling with Your Computer
Managing Power Consumption
52
User's Guide
System standby
Action
Turns off the display and hard disk drive.
Saves current session to RAM.
When
Fn+F3 or Fn+F4 or Start, Shut Down,
Standby.
Resume
Press the blue power button to return to
your current session.
System standby can also occur automatically when the timeout setting in the Power
Management Properties window is reached. (In Windows 98 and ME, there is no
difference between Standby and Suspend.)
Hibernate
Action
Saves the current session to disk, then
shuts down. Provides maximum power
savings while still allowing you to recover
the current session. In order to assure
maximum power savings, the timeout
setting in the BIOS Setup Utility has been
set to the default of 20 minutes.
When
Press Fn+F5.
Resume
Press the blue power button to recover your
current session. This takes several
seconds.
Hibernate can also occur automatically when:
Battery power reaches a critically low level (see “To respond to a low-battery
warning” on page 57).
The timeout setting in the BIOS Setup utility is reached (default is 2 hours after
System standby occurs).
Off
Action
Turning off your computer provides
maximum power savings. The current
session is not saved and unsaved data will
be lost
.
When
Start, Shut Down, Shut down.
Resume
Press the blue power button to start a new
session. This will take several seconds.