ACPI表示高级配置和电源管理接口（Advanced Configuration and Power Management Interface）。ACPI(Advanced Configuration Management)是由 惠普/INTEL／MICROSOFT／TOSHIBA提出的新型电源管理规范，意图是让系统而不是BIOS来全面控制电源管理，使系统更加省电。 其特点主要有：提供立刻开机功能，即开机后可立即恢复到上次关机时的状态，光驱、软驱和硬盘在未使用时会自动关掉电源，使用时再打开；支
ACPI表示高级配置和电源管理接口（Advanced Configuration and Power Management Interface）。对于Windows2000，ACPI定义了Windows 2000、BIOS和系统硬件之间的新型工作接口。这些新接口包括允许Windows 2000控制电源管理和设备配置的机制。
This document describes ACPI hardware interfaces, ACPI software interfaces and ACPI data structures that, when implemented, enable support for robust OS-directed configuration and power management (OSPM).
The Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) specification was developed to establish industry
common interfaces enabling robust operating system (OS)-directed motherboard device configuration
and power management of both devices and entir
