
L i f e B o o k B S e r i e s – S e c t i o n F i v e
Problem | Possible Cause | Possible Solutions |
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Your notebook will not | Your installed battery is faulty. | Verify the condition of the battery using the |
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| Status Indicator panel and replace or remove |
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| any battery that is shorted. See “Status Indicator |
| Panel” on page 13. | |
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The battery seems to | You are running an application | Use a power adapter for this application when at all |
discharge too quickly. | that uses a great deal of power | possible. |
| due to frequent hard drive |
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| of a modem or a LAN PC card. |
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| The power savings features | Check the power management and/or setup utility |
| may be disabled. | settings in the Power Savings menu and adjust |
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| The brightness is turned all | Turn down the brightness adjustment. The higher |
| the way up. | the brightness the more power your display uses. |
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| The battery is very old. | Replace the battery. |
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| The battery has been exposed | Replace the battery. |
| to high temperatures. |
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| The battery is too hot or too | Restore the notebook to normal operating tempera- |
| cold. | ture. The Charging icon on the Status Indicator |
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| panel will flash when the battery is outside its |
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| operating range. |
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Shutdown and Startup Problems |
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The Suspend/Resume | The Suspend/Resume button | Enable the button from the setup utility. |
button does not work. | is disabled from the Advanced |
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| submenu of the Power menu |
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| of the setup utility. |
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| You did not hold the button | Hold the button longer. This may need to be a few |
| in long enough. | seconds if your application is preventing the CPU |
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| There may be a conflict with | Close all applications and try the button again. |
| the application software. |
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The system powers up, and | The boot sequence settings of | Set the operating source by pressing the [ESC] key |
displays power on informa- | the setup utility are not | while the Fujitsu logo is on screen or use the [F2] |
tion, but fails to load the | compatible with your | key and enter the setup utility and adjust the source |
operating system. | configuration. | settings from the Boot menu. See “BIOS Setup |
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| Utility” on page 29. |
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| You have a secured system | Make sure you have the right password. Enter the |
| requiring a password to load | setup utility and verify the Security settings and |
| your operating system. | modify them as accordingly. See “BIOS Setup |
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| Utility” on page 29. |
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An error message is | Power On Self Test (POST) has | See the Power On Self Test (POST) messages to |
displayed on the screen | detected a problem. | determine the meaning and severity of the problem. |
during the LifeBook note- |
| Not all messages are errors; some are simply status |
book boot sequence. |
| indicators. See “Power On Self Test Messages” on |
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| page 61. |
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