APM is basically how your computer manages it's power options. It can be set up to save battery life on a laptop or determine how long your monitor or hard disk operates at full power before going into a power saving mode. If you haven't had any problems with it lately I would leave it as is. It may be disabled in your bios. Right-click the icon that has the exclamation mark on it and choose properties and you may have a button there that says troubleshoot that may give you more information. Depending on your operating system you should have something in your Control Panel that says "power management" or something similar where you can manage your power options.