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| Your LifeBook notebook | You are operating on battery | Install a power adapter and then push the Suspend/ |
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| turns off all by itself. | power and have ignored a low | Resume button. See “Power Sources” on page 29. |
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| is at the dead battery state and |
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| your machine has gone into |
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| Dead Battery Suspend mode. |
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| You have a battery failure. | Verify the condition of the battery using the Status |
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| Indicator panel, and replace or remove any shorted |
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| battery. See “Status Indicator Panel” on page 13. |
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| Your notebook will not | The installed battery is dead. | Replace the battery with a charged one or install a |
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| work on battery alone. |
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| power adapter. |
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| No battery is installed. | Install a charged battery. |
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| The battery is improperly | Verify that the battery is properly connected by |
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| Your installed battery is faulty. | Verify the condition of the battery using the Status |
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| Indicator panel and replace or remove any battery |
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| that is shorted. See “Status Indicator Panel” on |
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| 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 |
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| discharge too quickly. | that uses a great deal of power | possible. |
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| of a modem or a LAN PC card. |
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| The battery is very old. | Replace the battery. |
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| The power savings features | Check the power management and/or setup utility |
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| may be disabled. | settings in the Power Savings menu and adjust |
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| according to your operating needs. |
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| The brightness is turned all | Turn down the brightness adjustment. The higher |
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| the way up. | the brightness the more power your display uses. |
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| The battery has been exposed | Replace the battery. |
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| to high temperatures. |
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| The battery is too hot or too | Restore the notebook to normal operating tempera- |
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| cold. | ture. The Status Indicator panel Charging icon will |
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| flash when the battery is outside its operating range. |
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| Shutdown and Startup Problems |
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| The Suspend/Resume | The Suspend/Resume button | In Windows XP, enable the button by going to the |
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| button does not work. | is disabled. | Control Panel |
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| clicking on the Advanced tab. In the Power buttons |
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| Windows Vista, select the “Change what the power |
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| button does” option. |
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| You did not hold the button | Hold the button longer. This may need to be a few |
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| in long enough. | seconds if your application is preventing the CPU |
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| from checking for button pushes. |
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| There may be a conflict with | Close all applications and try the button again. |
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| the application software. |
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