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In addition, Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit includes two similar tools (CDBurn.exe and DVDBurn.exe). [16] Although Microsoft has retired this Power Toy, it is available as the unauthorized ISO Recorder Power Toy. Shell Audio Player was a Windows Media Player-based compact player which allows playing music from the taskbar.
Advanced power management (APM) is a technical standard for power management developed by Intel and Microsoft and released in 1992 [1] which enables an operating system running an IBM-compatible personal computer to work with the BIOS (part of the computer's firmware) to achieve power management.
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) is an open standard that operating systems can use to discover and configure computer hardware components, to perform power management (e.g. putting unused hardware components to sleep), auto configuration (e.g. Plug and Play and hot swapping), and status monitoring. It was first released in ...
A user with permissions to read and/or write to this file can use the file I/O API to access these registers. The msr-tools [6] package provides a reference implementation. Documentation regarding which MSRs a certain processor implementation supports is usually found in the processor documentation of the CPU vendor.
Active-state power management (ASPM) is a power management mechanism for PCI Express devices to garner power savings while otherwise in a fully active state. Predominantly, this is achieved through active-state link power management; i.e., the PCI Express serial link is powered down when there is no traffic across it.
Microsoft Windows supports predefined power plans and custom sleep and hibernation settings through a Control Panel Power Options applet. [3] Apple's macOS includes idle and sleep configuration settings through the Energy Saver System Preferences applet. [4] Likewise, Linux distributions include a variety of power management settings and tools. [5]
A power-on self-test (POST) is a process performed by firmware or software routines immediately after a computer or other digital electronic device is powered on. [ 1 ] POST processes may set the initial state of the device from firmware and detect if any hardware components are non-functional.
Block diagram of the Platform Controller Hub–based chipset architecture, including an Integrated Memory Controller (IMC) in the CPU An Intel DH82H81 PCH with its die exposed The Platform Controller Hub ( PCH ) is a family of Intel 's single-chip chipsets , first introduced in 2009.