At the highest level of power management techniques is ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface), an open-industry specification co-developed by Compaq, Intel, Microsoft, Phoenix, and Toshiba.

I recently installed Windows XP on a system whose ACPI sleep modes were disabled in the BIOS (S1/S3). It wasn't until afterwards that I discovered this. I've since enabled them, but none-the-less, I ...

Today's computers represent a quantum leap in performance and complexity compared with the technology available only a few years ago. Nevertheless, a paramount goal of these late and future designs is ...

I built a new system a couple of months ago, and I have it all setup and running nicely, including sleeping to S3. My motherboard (Biostar A780G M2+ SE) has the options of using ACPI version 1.0 or ...