Table 1-5

 

Display and Left Side Components

Item

Component

Function

 

 

 

 

1

Tilt feet (2)

Tilt the computer for ease of use.

 

2

Battery bay

Accepts a 9- or 6-cell Lithium ion (Li ion)

 

 

primary battery pack.

 

3

Armada E500 & E500S: Accepts a removable diskette drive or 9- or

 

DualBay

6-cell Li ion primary battery pack.

 

Armada V300:

Accepts diskettes.

 

Fixed diskette drive

 

 

4

Display release latch

Opens the computer.

 

5

Audio bass port

Enhances stereo sound.

6

MultiBay

Accepts the following MultiBay devices:

 

 

CD-ROM drive, CD-RW drive, DVD-ROM

 

 

drive, hard drive (in Hard Drive MultiBay

 

 

Adapter), SuperDisk LS-120 Drive, 6-cell

 

 

Li ion MultiBay battery pack.

 

7

Volume buttons

Adjust the volume of the stereo speakers.

 

8

Power/suspend light

On—power is turned on.

 

(green)

Off—power is turned off.

 

 

Blinking—computer is in Suspend.*

 

 

NOTE: The power/suspend light also blinks if

 

 

a battery pack that is the only source of

 

 

power available to the computer reaches a

 

 

critical low-battery condition while

 

 

Hibernation is disabled.

 

9

Battery light (green)

On—a battery pack is charging.

 

 

Off—no battery packs are changing.

Blinking—a battery pack that is the only available power source has reached a low-battery condition.

*In Windows 98 the term Standby replaces the term Suspend.

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