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| APM |
| Author: Gabriel Torres |
Last Updated: April 26, 2005 |
| Category: Power
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Advanced Power Management
This is an old power management standard created by Intel to turn off certain peripherals if they went idle for a certain amount of time. Surpassed by ACPI, it is less efficient than this new standard.
To use APM your motherboard need to have a compatible BIOS which will enable a controlling driver that makes the interface between the operating system and the computer hardware.
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