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| The batteries seem to | You are running an application | Use both the primary battery and an optional |
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| discharge too quickly. | that uses a great deal of power | second battery and/or use a power adapter for this |
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| due to frequent hard drive | application when at all possible. |
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| access or |
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| access, use of a modem card |
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| or a LAN PC card. |
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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 batteries are very old. | Replace the batteries. |
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| The batteries have been | Replace the batteries. |
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| exposed to high temperatures. |
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| The batteries are too hot | Restore the LifeBook to normal operating tempera- |
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| or too 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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| The Power and Suspend/ | The Power and Suspend/ | Enable the button from the setup utility. |
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| work. | from the Advanced submenu |
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| of the Power menu of the setup |
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| utility. |
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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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| The system powers up, and | The boot sequence settings | Set the operating source by pressing the [ESC] key |
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| displays power on informa- | of the setup utility are not | while the Fujitsu logo is on screen or use the [F2] |
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| tion, but fails to load the | compatible with your | key and enter the setup utility and adjust the source |
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| operating system. | configuration. | settings from the Boot menu. (See BIOS Setup |
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| Utility on page 39 for more information) |
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| You have a secured system | Make sure you have the right password. Enter the |
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| requiring a password to load | setup utility and verify the Security settings and |
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| your operating system. | modify them accordingly. (See BIOS Setup Utility on |
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| page 39 for more information) |
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| Internal hard drive was | Use the BIOS setup utility or Primary Master |
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| not detected. | submenu, located within the Main menu, to try to |
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| auto detect the internal hard drive. |
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| An error message is | Power On Self Test (POST) has | See the POST messages to determine the meaning |
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| displayed on the screen | detected a problem. | and severity of the problem. Not all messages are |
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| during the LifeBook |
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| errors; some are simply status indicators. (See Power |
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| (boot) sequence. |
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