How to achieve optimal performance for the ecobutton™ and your PC

This guide will indicate the best procedure for optimising your computer for use with the ecobutton™

Setting the Computers BIOS

As all PC manufacturers use differing default settings for power management it may be necessary to make a minor adjustment within the BIOS settings.

You won't need to make any detailed adjustments to your BIOS settings and you can make the following without difficulty:

From a cold start go into the BIOS (very first prompt you will see when starting up, you will need to tap a key to do this normally F12, F2 or DELETE. your PC will tell you which key on startup).

Once in BIOS, go to INTERGRATED PERIPHERALS (or similar) tab

Then Enable USB keyboard support

Then go to the POWER MANAGMENT tab and toggle from S1 to S3, then SAVE changes, and reboot.

Windows XP

Use Windows Update to ensure your computer is up to date and that you are running the latest Service Pack

Make sure all device drivers are up to date as outdated drivers can cause problems with the sleep process.

Further information

Follow our faulting finding test to isolate the ecobutton or Windows as the cause of a problem

Further fault finding information on Windows Vista sleep problems can be found here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907477