Problem

Possible Cause

Possible Solutions

 

 

 

Your LIFEBOOK notebook

Your installed battery is faulty.

Verify the condition of the battery using the Status Indicator panel and replace or

will not work on battery

 

remove any shorted battery. See “Status Indicator Panel” on page 20.

alone. (continued)

 

 

 

 

 

The battery seems to

You re running an application

Use both the primary battery and an optional second battery and/or use a power

discharge too quickly.

that uses a lot of power due to

adapter for this application when at all possible.

 

frequent hard drive, optical

 

 

drive, or Wireless LAN use.

 

 

 

 

 

The power savings features

Check the Power Options menu settings and adjust according to your operating needs.

 

may be disabled.

 

 

 

 

 

The brightness is turned all the

Turn down the brightness adjustment. The higher the brightness the more power your

 

way up.

display uses.

 

 

 

 

The battery is very old.

Replace the battery.

 

 

 

 

Battery was exposed to high

Replace the battery.

 

temperatures.

 

 

 

 

 

The battery is too hot or too

Restore the notebook to normal operating temperature. Charging icon on the Status

 

cold.

Indicator panel will flash when battery is outside of operating range.

 

 

 

Shutdown and Startup Problems

 

The Suspend/Resume but-

Suspend/Resume button is

Select the “Choose what the power button does” option.

ton does not work.

disabled.

 

 

 

 

 

There may be application soft-

Close all applications and try the button again.

 

ware. conflict

 

 

 

 

The system powers up, and

The boot sequence settings of

Set the operating source by pressing the [ESC] key while the Fujitsu logo is on screen

displays power on informa-

the setup utility are not com-

or use the [F2] key and enter the setup utility and adjust the source settings from the

tion, but fails to load the

patible with your configura-

Boot menu. See “BIOS Setup Utility” on page 38.

operating system.

tion.

 

 

 

 

 

Internal hard drive was

Use the BIOS setup utility or Primary Master submenu, located within the Main menu,

 

not detected.

to try to auto detect the internal hard drive.

 

 

 

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