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Your LifeBook notebook  | You are operating on  | Install a power adapter and then push the Power/Sus-  | 
turns off all by itself.  | battery power and  | pend/Resume button. See “Power Sources” on page 37. | 
(continued)  | ignored a low battery  | 
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  | alarm until the battery is  | 
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  | at the dead battery  | 
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  | state and the system  | 
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  | has gone into Dead Bat-  | 
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  | tery Suspend mode.  | 
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  | You have a battery fail-  | Verify the condition of the batteries using the Status Indicator  | 
  | ure.  | panel, and replace or remove any batteries that are shorted. See  | 
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  | “Status Indicator Panel” on page 22. | 
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  | Your power adapter has  | Make sure the adapter is plugged in and the outlet has power.  | 
  | failed or lost power.  | 
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Your LifeBook notebook will  | The installed battery is  | Replace the battery with a charged one or install a power adapter.  | 
not work on battery alone.  | dead.  | 
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  | No batteriy is installed.  | Install a charged battery.  | 
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  | The batteries are  | Verify that the batteries are properly connected by   | 
  | improperly installed.  | them.  | 
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  | Your installed batteries  | Verify the condition of the batteries using the Status Indicator  | 
  | are faulty.  | panel and replace or remove any batteries that are shorted. See  | 
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  | “Status Indicator Panel” on page 22.  | 
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The batteries seem to  | You are running an  | Use both the primary battery and an optional second battery  | 
discharge too quickly.  | application that uses a  | and/or use a power adapter for this application when at all  | 
  | lot of power due to fre-  | possible.  | 
  | quent hard drive or opti-  | 
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  | cal drive access, or use  | 
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  | of a modem, LAN PC  | 
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  | card, Wireless LAN, or  | 
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  | Bluetooth device.  | 
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