The following represents some of the references, services, and tools available to help build hardware that is optimized to work with Windows operating systems.
1394 Device Power Management
ftp://ftp.p1394pm.org/pub/1394pm/
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/onnow.htm
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Specification, Revision 1.0
http://www.teleport.com/~acpi/
El Torito—Bootable CD-ROM Format Specification, Version 1.0
Compaq, Intel, Phoenix BIOS Boot Specification, Version 1.01
http://www.ptltd.com/techs/specs.html
Intel hardware developer site
http://developer.intel.com
PCI Bus Power Management Interface Specification for PCI to CardBus Bridge, Revision 1.0
http://www.pcisig.com
Plug and Play specifications
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/specs/
Power management specifications for device and bus classes
Guidelines for audible noise and other OnNow technologies
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/onnow.htm
Smart Battery Charger Specification, Version 1.0
Smart Battery Selector Specification, Version 1.0
http://www.sbs-forum.org
Windows and Windows NT DDKs
MSDN Professional membership