User manual NEC POWERMATE P2200M

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[. . . ] The Power Management Submenu appears for setting parameters that affect the power saving features. 4-20 Setting System Parameters Power Management Submenu The Power Management Submenu lets you check or change the Advanced Power Management parameter. Selecting the Advanced Power Management field enables or disables power management support in the BIOS. Power management reduces the amount of energy used after specified periods of inactivity. The Advanced Power Management menu offers you the choice of operating the system in a full on state or standby state with partial power reduction when idle. This field must be enabled to be Energy Star Compliant. NOTE T Enabled (default) - allows the BIOS to work with the OS and reduce power consumption when idle. This selection allows you to customize the following power management fields. Disabled - keeps the computer in a full on state and eliminates the following power management options. T IDE Drive Power Down The IDE Drive Power Down field controls whether or not a spin down command will be issued to the IDE drives when the system goes into low power mode. This field can be either "Enabled" or "Disabled. " The default is "Enabled. " Setting System Parameters 4-21 Inactivity Timer (Minutes) The Inactivity Timer (Minutes) field controls the number of minutes that the system will detect no user activity before going into low power mode. Hot Key The Hot Key field is used to define a key which, when entered, will cause the BIOS to put the OS into power management mode. Press CTRL ­ ALT ­ user defined alphabetic character when not in Setup to use the feature. Typically, there is some delay before the system enters power management mode and the speaker issues two tones. If there is a User Password in effect the Num Lock, Caps Lock, and Scroll Lock lamps on the keyboard flash in sequence, indicating that the system is in Secure Mode. (See Set User Password field in Security Menu. ) In this case, the password has to be entered before you regain control of the system. The following table describes how the Powerdown Hot Key interacts with the Security Hot Key. 4-22 Setting System Parameters Hot Key Parameters HOT KEY Powerdown Hot Key Enabled Only Security Hot Key Enabled Only Both Hot Keys Enabled FUNCTION System powers down. Powers up when any key/mouse activity is detected. Plug and Play Configuration When the cursor is placed in the Plug and Play Configuration field, you can select it by pressing Enter. The Plug and Play Submenu appears for setting PCI/ISA Plug and Play expansion board parameters. Plug and Play Submenu The Plug and Play Submenu lets you check or change the Configuration Mode parameters. Use the Configuration Mode field to choose the method on how the BIOS gets information about ISA expansion boards that do not have Plug and Play capabilities. This allows the BIOS to set up PCI and ISA Plug and Play expansion boards without conflicting with non-Plug and Play ISA boards. Setting System Parameters 4-23 The choices are as follows. T Use BIOS Setup - The BIOS depends upon the information provided by run-time Plug and Play software (Configuration Managers and ICU). When "Use BIOS Setup" is chosen, the BIOS depends on runtime software to ensure that there are no conflicts between ISA boards with Plug and Play capabilities and those without. Use PnP OS (default) - If "Use PnP OS" is selected, the BIOS depends on run-time software to ensure that there are no conflicts between ISA boards with Plug and Play capabilities and those without. Only "Boot With PnP OS" is visible. T Boot with PnP OS The Boot with PnP OS field enables the system to boot with an operating system capable of managing Plug and Play add-in cards. The choices are as follows. None Other Windows95 (default) ISA Shared Memory Size The ISA Shared Memory Size field is used to set a block of system memory which will not be shadowed. (Shadowing is a technique which copies a block of memory from an address in the expansion board's ROM to the same address in the system memory to allow faster access to the code and achieve higher performance. ) If "Disabled, " all upper memory is shadowed and ISA Shared Memory Base Address field is not displayed. This field provides the following choices. 4-24 Setting System Parameters When a value other than "Disabled" is selected, a block is unshadowed and the ISA Shared Memory Base Address field will appear. Disabled (default) 16 KB 32 KB 48 KB 64 KB 80 KB 96 KB If a value of "96 KB" is selected, then the ISA Shared Memory Base Address field can only be set to C8000h; if "80 KB, " then a value of C8000 or CC000h, etc. NOTE ISA Shared Memory Base Address The ISA Shared Memory Base Address field is only displayed when an ISA Shared Memory Size has be selected. [. . . ] Therefore, the suitability of a Product for a specific purpose or application must be determined by the customer and is not warranted by NECCSD. Limited Warranty B-5 C Reviewing System Interrupts The interrupt controller accepts requests from peripherals, issues interrupt requests to the processor, resolves interrupt priorities, and provides vectors for the processor to determine which interrupt routine to execute. The interrupt controller has priority assignment modes that can be reconfigured at any time during system operations. Interrupt-level assignments 0 through 15 are in order of decreasing priority. See Chapter 4, Setting System Parameters, for information on changing the interrupts using Setup. Interrupt Level Assignments INTERRUPT PRIORITY IRQ00 IRQ01 IRQ02 IRQ03 IRQ04 IRQ05 IRQ06 IRQ07 INTERRUPT DEVICE Counter/Timer Keyboard Cascade (INT output from slave) COM2 and COM4 COM1 and COM3 Parallel Port 2/Audio (if present) Diskette Drive Controller Parallel Port 1 Reviewing System Interrupts C-1 Interrupt Level Assignments INTERRUPT PRIORITY IRQ08 IRQ09 IRQ10 IRQ11 IRQ12 IRQ13 IRQ14 IRQ15 INTERRUPT DEVICE Real-time clock Available Available (Audio on multimedia configurations) Available PS/2 mouse Coprocessor Primary IDE Secondary IDE C-2 Reviewing System Interrupts Index A Accessing Voyetra from Windows 95, 6-1 Activating a module, 6-3 Adjusting sound, 6-4 Advanced menu, 4-14 America Online, 7-6 Audio connectors, 1-15 Audio Mixer, 6-3 AudioStation modules CD, 6-4 MIDI, 6-6 Mixer, 6-3 WAV player, 6-5 AudioStation screen, 6-2 B Battery, 8-9 Replacing, 8-9 BIOS recovery jumper, 5-5 Bulletin board service, 7-4 C CD Player, 6-4 CD Restore, 4-37 CD-ROM reader drive assignment, 1-9 eject/retract button, 1-10 emergency eject, 1-10 features, 1-9, 1-10 volume control, 1-10 Changing password parameters, 4-28 Checking hard disk drive parameters, 4-7 Clearing password jumper, 5-10 CMOS battery replacement, 8-9 CMOS jumper, 5-7 CompuServe, 7-8 Configuration jumpers, 5-2 Configuring Plug and Play, 4-23 Configuring Power Management, 4-20 Connectors, 1-15 audio, 1-15 keyboard, 1-16 mouse, 1-16 printer, 1-16 serial port, 1-16 VGA monitor connector, 1-15 Cover removal, 3-4 D Denying access to CMOS jumper, 5-9 Desktop cover removal, 3-5 cover replacement, 3-8 Diagnostics, 8-12 QA Plus, 8-12 Digital Audio module, 6-5 Disk lamp, 1-6 Diskette drive, 1-7 Index-1 Documentation, xiv­xv, 2-2, 2-4 E Edit digital audio files, 6-6 E-mail support, 7-9 Error message, 8-1 Expansion board installation, 3-13 External options, 3-64 parallel printer, 3-64 serial devices, 3-66 F FastFacts service, 7-2 Fax support, 7-8 Features back, 1-11­1-18 CD-ROM reader, 1-9 diskette drive, 1-8 front, 1-2­1-11 power saving, 1-5 system controls and lamps, 1-5­1-6 Finding information, 2-5 Flash utility, 4-32 Full Power On mode, 1-6 H Hard disk drive parameters, 4-7 Headphones, 1-10 Heceta capabilities, 4-36 Help, 8-12 from your company, 8-13 NECCSD dealer, 8-13 NECCSD's Technical Support Center, 8-13 repair service, 8-14 I IDE translation mode other operating systems, 4-9 Information, 2-5 Information services, 7-1 America Online, 7-6 CompuServe, 7-7 E-mail support, 7-8 fax support, 7-8 Internet, 7-9 NECCSD bulletin board service, 7-4 NECCSD technical support, 710 NEC's FastFacts, 7-2 NECCSD's ftp site, 7-9 NECCSD's World Wide Web home page, 7-9 World Wide Web, 7-9 Internet, 7-9 Interrupt controller, C-1 Inventory, 4-35 IR window, 1-7 IrDA data transfer, 1-7 J Jumper clearing password, 5-10 denying access to CMOS, 5-9 PCI slots, 5-13 Jumpers BIOS recovery, 5-5 CMOS, 5-7 system board, 5-2 Index-2 K Keyboard connecting, 1-16 port, 1-16 L Lamps CD busy, 1-11 disk, 1-6 diskette drive busy, 1-8 power, 1-6 LANDesk Client Manager features, 4-33 Line out jack, 1-16 M Main menu options, 4-5 Managing workstations, 4-33 Menus Advanced, 4-14 Main, 4-5 Microphone, 1-19 features, 1-16 jack, 1-16 Minitower cover removal, 3-9 cover replacement, 3-12 Monitoring PC health, 4-34 Mouse clicking, 2-1 connecting, 1-16 double clicking, 2-2 dragging, 2-2 port, 1-16 pressing, 2-2 using, 2-1­2-2 Multimedia Sound Software package, 6-1 N NECCSD Bulletin Board Service, 7-4 NEC Information group, 2-3 NECCSD repair service, 8-14 NECCSD Technical Support Center, 8-13 NECCSD Technical Support Services, 7-10 NEC's FastFacts, 7-2 Non-warranty repair service, 8-14 O Obtaining Flash utility, 4-32 Online diagnostics, 8-12 documentation, xiv, 2-2, 2-4 Option installation, 3-1, 3-35 cover removal, 3-4 desktop cover removal, 3-5 expansion boards, 3-13 external options, 3-64 minitower cover removal, 3-9 overdrive processor upgrade, 3-33 precautions, 3-3 SIMM memory, 3-25 storage devices, 3-36 video memory, 3-31 Overdrive Processor upgrade, 3-33 installing, 3-35 removing, 3-33 Index-3 P Parallel port, 1-16 Password changing entries, 4-28 setting, 4-26 PC health indicator, 4-33 PC Health meter, 4-34 PCI slot jumpers, 5-13 Peripheral submenu, 4-15 Play CD, 6-4 digital audio files, 6-6 MIDI files, 6-7 Port IR, 1-7 Power Bar, 6-2 buttons, 6-3 Power button, 1-5 lamp, 1-6 Power saving features, 1-5 Power supply features, 1-17, 1-18 Printer port, 1-16 connector, 1-16 Problems, 8-2 CD-ROM, 8-7 common problem solutions, 8-3 diskette drive, 8-5 keyboard/mouse, 8-7 microphone, 8-8 monitor, 8-6 speakers, 8-8 system, 8-3 what to do, 8-2 Processor upgrade, 3-33 R Record digital audio files, 6-5 Repair service, 8-14 Reset button, 1-6 Restarting your computer, 1-6 Restoring individual files, 4-39 Restoring system software restore individual files, 4-39­4-41 restore indvidual files, 4-37 system recovery, 4-38, 4-41, 4-43 S Serial COM port addresses, 4-16 Serial ports, 1-16 Services, 8-12 24-hour information, 7-1 Setting passwords, 4-26 Setting system date/time, 4-6 Setup utility, 4-1 uses, 4-2 SIMM installation, 3-29 upgrade, 3-25 Sound, 6-4 Sound software, 1-18, 1-20, 6-1 WAV files, 6-5 Speakers, 1-18 Starting Setup utility, 4-3 storage device installation, 3-36, 3-37 desktop, 3-46, 3-54 device cables, 3-39 device preparation, 3-39 device slots, 3-37 Index-4 Suspend button, 1-5 mode, 1-5, 1-6 System board interrupt controller, C-1 jumpers, 5-2 System recovery, 4-38, 4-41, 4-43 System restore options, 4-37 T Technical support, 7-10 Troubleshooting, 8-1 common problems, 8-3 if you have a problem, 8-1 minor problems, 8-2 NECCSD Technical Support Center, 8-13 Online diagnostics, 8-12 Replacing the CMOS battery, 8-9 Typematic rate delay, 4-13 U Using DMI, 4-36 Utilities CD Restore, 4-37 Flash, 4-32 LANDesk Client Manager, 4-33 Setup, 4-1 V VGA monitor connector, 1-15 Video upgrade, 3-31 Voltage selector switch, 1-18 Volume, 1-10, 1-18 Voyetra software components AudioStation, 6-2 W Warranty repair service, 8-14 WAV, 6-5 Index-5 (For United States Use Only) FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE STATEMENT WARNING: Changes or modifications to this unit not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user's authority to operate the equipment. 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