Using Power Management

To Initiate Suspend Immediately Using a Keyboard Shortcut

  1. Press Shift and the power key.

    See Figure 3-6 or Figure 3-7 for the location of the power key.

  2. Wait for the system to power off.

    The suspend confirmation window isn't displayed if you use this method.

  3. Power off all external devices.

    External devices include external disk drives, printers, or other serial or parallel peripherals. See the manual supplied with the external device for instructions.