Path: clanworld.com!news.webspan.net!ix.netcom.com!news From: "Austin Franklin" Newsgroups: alt.comp.shareware,comp.os.ms-windows.apps.utilities.win95,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,rec.games.computer.quake.misc,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.tyan Subject: Re: MORE hot CPU discussion Date: 15 Apr 1998 12:46:18 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 53 Message-ID: <01bd686c$75e60f10$47e45ecf@drt3> References: <351E2CD8.4D81@earthlink.net> <6fnckr$8rh@bgtnsc02.worldnet.att.net> <351f4910.9819782@news.usol.com> <6fs4vi$n54@bgtnsc02.worldnet.att.net> <3521d7f7.1726228@news.usol.com> <6ftisu$fng@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net> <352596a1.6181009@news.usol.com> <3522b0e2.3174132@news.owl-online.de> <6fukp0$3o7@bgtnsc02.worldnet.att.net> <35242406.2745277@news.owl-online.de> <3526c8b7.4831215@news.owl-online.de> <01bd60b3$5d62a400$3a981ed1@default> <35280d9a.12247843@news.concentric.net> <352854c5.1084842@news.usol.com> <3528e4be.6969764@news.erols.com> <01bd661a$4f0d5aa0$26c220cc@drt3> <3530ECC8.7B480458@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: tnt-ma4-07.ix.netcom.com X-NETCOM-Date: Wed Apr 15 5:46:18 AM PDT 1998 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1161 Xref: clanworld.com comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips:74992 rec.games.computer.quake.misc:27659 > > > NT doesn't have power management support or plug and play support, > > > > That is not correct. > > > > 1) on my Toshiba notebook, Toshiba provides a power management utility that > > turns the disk off, and the screen off, and can sleep/slow down the CPU. > > > > 2) on my desktop...Adaptec provides a power down for the hard disks, and > > the display utilities I have support DPMS, and will turn the monitor off. > > > > 3) NT 4 DOES support PnP. > > Not officially and only with thierd-party drivers. Official or not, it works just fine on my machine, so in my book, NT 4 DOES support PnP. It comes on the NT4 CD... > If you got drivers that enable power managment on your system, you are > lucky . It's got nothing to do with luck. Most all notebook manufacturers have support for power management for NT. It will always be something that has to be provided by the notebook manufacturer....as it is not a standardized at this time. > but I wouldn't say that NT supports PNP or power managment because > you got drivers for your specific hardware PnP comes on the NT4 distribution CD...AND it works, NT4 support it? > Ask Microsoft and they will tell you that it doesn't support PNP or > Power Managment. We have 4 NT Workstations in my department and I > can't even get the monitors to turn off after 30min. > > I don't count pnpisa.inf as PNP support. It's an PNP *enabler* and > not supported by Microsoft. You are confusing 'supported by Microsoft' and 'supported by NT4'. They are two different things. If it works, then NT4 supports it, and who cares if Microsoft doesn't support it. This sounds more like a semantical game. NT4 DOES support PnP and after market software (or BIOS) is available for power management. The origial question was 'does NT (NOT Microsoft) support PnP and Power Management'. By the way, my monitors turn off just fine. Austin