Traveling with Your OmniBook Managing Power Consumption Managing Power Consumption When you are not using your computer, you will want to maximize battery operating time without compromising performance. It is not necessary to turn the computer off in order to reduce power consumption and extend battery life. With Windows 98, Advanced Power Management (APM) provides both manual and automated tools for reducing power consumption. • Power management options may be invoked manually at any time by pressing the appropriate key. See “To use manual power management” on page 50. • Power management options can also be set to occur automatically, based on timeout values that you have entered.
See Managing Power Consumption in the online User’s Guide. To use manual power management with Windows 98 You can shut down your OmniBook manually whenever you need to with any of the following three levels of shutdown. Note Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 95: Consult OmniBook Notes and the OmniBook website for more information on power management and the BIOS Setup utility. 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. 50 Setup Guide