Method and apparatus for preventing inadvertent power management

Details Method and apparatus for preventing inadvertent power management Method and apparatus for preventing inadvertent power management

1997-01-17

1999-11-30

Sheikh, Ayaz R.

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support

Computer power control

713320, 713323, 713324, 713330, 713502, 713601, 713310, G06F 100

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059960787

ABSTRACT:
An inadvertent invocation of power management is avoided by having an application program set a storage location to a predetermined value. The application program then calls a BIOS software interrupt from the application program. The BIOS software interrupt routine determines if the storage location contains the predetermined value and if so, resets the power management timers, thus preventing power management from being inadvertently invoked.

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