LifeBook E8000 Notebook

Starting Your LifeBook Notebook

Power On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
Boot Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
Hard Disk Drive Passwords. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
BIOS Setup Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Booting the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Registering Your LifeBook notebook . . . . . . . . . 30
Installing Click Me!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Power Management

Power/Suspend/Resume Button. . . . . . . . . . . . .31
Suspend Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31
Hibernation (Save-to-Disk) Feature . . . . . . . . . . 31
Display Timeout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Hard Disk Timeout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Windows Power Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Restarting the System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Power Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
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USER-INSTALLABLE FEATURES

Lithium ion Battery

Recharging the Batteries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Replacing the Battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

Optical Drive

Media Player Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37
Loading Media on Your Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Removing Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
Emergency Optical Drive Tray Release. . . . . . . . 38
Using the Media Player Software. . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Using Dolby™ Headphone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
Using Media Player on Battery Power . . . . . . . . 39

Memory Stick/Secure Digital Cards

Installing Memory Stick/SD Cards . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Removing A Memory Stick/SD Card . . . . . . . . . 40

PC Cards/ExpressCards™

Installing PC Cards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41
Removing PC Cards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Installing ExpressCards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
Removing ExpressCards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Smart Card Reader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42

Memory Upgrade Module

Installing/Removing Memory Modules . . . . . . . 43
Checking the Memory Capacity. . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Device Ports

Modem (RJ-11) Telephone Jack. . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Internal LAN (RJ-45) Jack. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45
Parallel Port. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Serial Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Port Replicator Connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46
Universal Serial Bus Ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Infrared Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
IEEE 1394 Port. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Headphone Jack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Microphone Jack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47
External Video Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
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TROUBLESHOOTING

Troubleshooting

Identifying the Problem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Specific Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Troubleshooting Table. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Power On Self Test Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Emergency Media Player Drive Tray Release . . . 61
Modem Result Codes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61
Restoring Your Pre-installed Software . . . . . . . . 62
Restoring the Factory Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Automatically Downloading Driver Updates. . . . 63
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CARING FOR YOUR LIFEBOOK NOTEBOOK

Care and Maintenance

Batteries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
Floppy Disks and Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Media Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
PC Cards/ExpressCards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
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