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Emergency
Tray Release
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USING OPTICAL DRIVE ON BATTERY POWER
Since optical drives consume a lot of power, your overall battery life will be significantly shorter when operating the drive continuously (such as watching a DVD movie) than during standard operation. Many movie
An additional
To Watch a Movie on Battery Power:
1.Have an additional
2.Start watching your DVD movie.
3.When the low battery warning occurs, immediately stop the movie and exit the media player.
If you do not stop the optical drive quickly and the LifeBook notebook attempts to
4.Power down your LifeBook notebook and replace the discharged battery with an additional fully- charged battery. If you do not have an additional battery, you should attach AC power as soon as you see the low battery warning.
5.Resume your notebook operation by pressing the Suspend button again. This is not required if you attached AC power without entering suspend mode.
6.Restart your optical drive, locate and skip to the chapter of the movie you were last watching.
7.Continue watching your DVD movie.
Some shorter DVD movies may not require you to swap batteries or attach AC power to complete them; however, it is best to be prepared since actual battery life while operating the media player cannot be guaranteed.
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