Advanced Power Management

[rech]

How does the Advanced power management work and is hardware. has it anything to do with the network card this information is concerning lap tops.

[rond36]

APM has nothing to do with your NIC unless you have WOL enabled in your BIOS and your motherboard and NIC support wake on LAN if this is supported by your NIC you should have a two wire cable similar to the one from your CDROM to your sound card. One end of this cable plugs into your NIC (marked WOL). The other end plugs into your motherboard (marked WOL).If everything is configured correctly when LAN activity is detected it will bring your system off standby so it can be accessed by the network. For all of this to work your system has to be part of a network and need to be accesed. This is a feature usually found on file servers and print servers not notebooks because they usually don't have any resources that the network needs to access http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/wink.gif

[Paleo Pete]

APM was originally designed for laptops, to conserve power and especially battery life. It basically uses a timer to discern when your last input was, from mouse, keyboard or other devices, and after a certain length time if it sees no input it shuts down the monitor, then a while later the hard drive.

In BIOS are settings to determine what activity makes it "wake up", those can come from mouse, keyboard, modem, NIC, and others. Usually most are enabled by default, so that any time the APM sees activity from any of those devices or IRQ's it will bring the machine back to life.

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[rond36]

Welcome to the PC Guide Forums

Advanced Power Management if enabled in your BIOS and set to user defined
can be changed in the power management aplet of the windows control panel. You can set your monitor and hard drive(s) to power down at a preset time out for inactivity to save battery power, conserve energy, or wear on hard drive(s).
I have my desk top set to always on and use a button on my key board to put system on standby
I hope this answers your question

[kenja]

The newer form of APM is ACPI: Advanced Configuration and Power Interface.