B Series.book Page 59 Friday, May 19, 2006 3:00 PM
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| Problem | Possible Cause |
| Possible Solutions |
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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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| (continued) | battery alarm until the battery |
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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 |
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| work on battery alone. |
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| a 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 |
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| installed. |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| discharge too quickly. | that uses a great deal of power |
| possible. |
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| due to frequent hard drive |
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| access or |
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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 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. |
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| 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 |
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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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