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APM . All recent (consumer) computers have ACPI support. MOTIVATIONS Power management for computer systems are desired for many reasons, particularly:
Lower power consumption also means low heat dissipation, which increases system stability, and less energy use, which saves money and reduces the burden on the environment. PROCESSOR LEVEL TECHNIQUES The power management for microprocessors could be done over the whole processors or some fine-grain areas. For global power control, there are:
Newer Intel Core processors support ultra-fine power control over the function units within the processors. OPERATING SYSTEM LEVEL: HIBERNATION See Also: Hibernate (OS feature) When Computer System hibernates it dumps the entire contents of the RAM to Disk and powers down the entire machine. On startup it reloads the data. It allows the system to be completely powered off while in hibernate mode. This requires a file the size of the installed RAM to be placed on the hard disk, using up space even when not in hibernate mode. Hibernate mode is enabled by default in some versions of Windows and can be disabled in order to recover this disk space. SEE ALSO
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