Using Your Notebook Computer
Indicators
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Power | Light is green when the power to the computer is turned | |||
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| System Suspend mode. Turns off when the computer is | |
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Battery 1 | Indicates the status of the battery inserted in the battery | |||
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Battery 2 | Indicates the status of the battery inserted in the drive | |||
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Hard disk | Lights when data is being read from or written to the | |||
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| hard drive. Do not enter System Suspend mode or turn | |
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Light | On | Off | ||
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Num Lock | The number keys in the | The alphanumeric character | ||
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Caps Lock | The letters appear in | Letters appear in lower case as | ||
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| Shift key lowers the case of | down the Shift key). |
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| typed letters when Caps |
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| Lock is on. |
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Scroll Lock | The screen scrolls differently. | Information moves across the | ||
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| (Exactly how it scrolls | display normally. |
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