Power Saving priorities - BIOS or Windows?

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Robert M Jones

Windows XP Home, Foxconn 760GXK8MC Motherboard
New to XP (formerly years on Win98SE)

My mobo supports hibernation and monitor power saving and I have the
various power savings options enabled in the BIOS for hibernation, hard
disk and monitor shutdown, with wake settings also.

What should I set up in Windows XP Home power saving? The same settings
and delays as I have in the BIOS - or "never" ?
Does Windows power saving "use" the BIOS capability or tend to conflict
with it?

Many thanks.

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Since you're using XP, I would disable all such functions within the
bios and just let windows handle it; if the m/b is acpi compliant then xp
should be able to "take over" those settings anyway, but I'd turn them off
just the same.
 
Since you're using XP, I would disable all such functions within the
bios and just let windows handle it; if the m/b is acpi compliant then xp
should be able to "take over" those settings anyway, but I'd turn them off
just the same.
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- it didn't like that. If I disable ACPI in the BIOS then the computer
goes into a reboot cycle - reboot - Windows didn't start normally -
reboot - windows didn't start normally - ad infinitum.
Only when I re-enable ACPI in the BIOS does the boot sequence proceed
normally.
(I have BootIt by the way which is part of the boot sequence.)

Any one else?

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Don't disable ACPI, if done it will cause XP to not boot due to a incorrect
HAL or Hardware Abstraction Layer driver being used. As long as ACPI
is enabled the computer will be controlled by XP not the BIOS level
settings.
 
R. McCarty said:
Don't disable ACPI, if done it will cause XP to not boot due to a incorrect
HAL or Hardware Abstraction Layer driver being used. As long as ACPI
is enabled the computer will be controlled by XP not the BIOS level
settings.
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Thank you for that. What you said certainly is exactly what happened!
So if the top level BIOS setting "Enable ACPI" is on, the various other
BIOS settings are irrelevant (delay times, wake up settings) ?

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