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ACPI Sleep States (S0 - S5)

Under the G1 sleeping state ACPI defines levels of system sleep state support. The MGC supports the following sleeping states:

S0: Normal Powered-On state
S1 (Standby): The S1 sleeping state is a low wake latency sleeping state. In this state, no system context is lost (CPU or chip set) and hardware maintains all system contexts.

Note:  The 7600 does not support S1 state. Turning off the backlight and hard drives provides the equivalent power savings (due to Intel's processor C-states feature) at nearly zero latency.

S2: Not supported
S3 (Suspend to Ram): The S3 sleeping state is a low wake latency sleeping state. This state is similar to the S1 sleeping state except that the CPU and system cache context is lost (the OS is responsible for maintaining the caches and CPU context). Control starts from the processor's reset vector after the wake event. In NCR systems, during S3, power is only provided to the on-board USB ports.

Note:  When the MGC resumes from an S3 state, all the USB devices re-enumerate. This causes speaker tones as if they were disconnected and then reconnected. This does not present a problem and the USB devices will continue to operate correctly.

Requirements for S3 support:

O/S must be built on a system with S3 enabled in the BIOS
Some peripherals may not be S3 capable, which can prevent the system from entering S3 state.
"S4 (Suspend to Disk): The S4 state is the lowest power, longest wake latency sleeping state supported by ACPI. In order to reduce power to a minimum, it is assumed that the hardware platform has powered off all devices. Platform context is maintained.

Requirements for S4 support:

O/S must be built on a system with S3 enabled in the BIOS
Some peripherals may not be S4 capable, which can prevent the system from entering S4 state.

Reference the ACPI Specification for details.

Peripherals: ACPI defines power states for peripherals which are separate from the system power state. The device power states range from D0 (fully-on) to D3 (off) It is the responsibility of the driver developer for each peripheral to define and support the available power states.

Power State

S0Working S1Standby S2 **S3 Suspend to RAM S4Hibernate **S5Soft Off

Supported:
Y / N

Y

Y

N

Y

Y

Y

Description

Fully Functional

Video Back Light Off
HDD Off
Cache Flush
Memory in Slow Refresh
CPU Halted
 
Video Back Light Off
HDD Off
Cache Flush
Memory in Slow Refresh
CPU Halted
Video Back Light Off
HDD Off
Cache Flush
Memory in Slow Refresh
CPU Halted

OFF

Power Supply Status

On

On

 

Powered Down**

Powered Down**

Powered Down**

Power Consumption*

37

24

 

2

1

<1

Wake Options:

           

Power Switch

N/A

Y

 

Y

Y

Y

PS/2 Keyboard

N/A

Y

 

Y

N

N

PS/2 Mouse

N/A

Y

 

Y

N

N

USB Keyboard

N/A

Y

 

Per O/S

N

N

USB Mouse

N/A

Y

 

Per O/S

N

N

LAN (magic packet)

N/A

Y

 

Y

Y

Y

RTC Alarm

N/A

Y

 

Y

Y

Y

Serial Port (RI)

N/A

Y

 

N

N

N

Note: Power consumption based on the following configuration with no peripherals Intel Atom 270, 512MB DIMM, HDD

*Maintains small voltage to support wake circuits)

**The external power supply is ON while in S3-S5. The motherboard shuts down all power circuits except for a small voltage to support wake circuits. Power to the 24V USB printer port and the Cash drawer is also disconnected while in S3-S5