Traveling with Your Computer
Using Battery Power
From the Windows taskbar
The System Tray on the Windows taskbar can display a power icon that provides detailed battery status information (see Windows help for details). The icon looks like a battery when AC is not connected.
•Place pointer over the power icon to display the percentage of charge remaining.
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From the Windows Control Panel
•Click Start, Control Panel, Performance and Maintenance, Power Options, then click the Power Meter tab to see battery status. The Alarms and Advanced tabs provide additional Windows’
From the status panel
If your computer has a status panel, press the status panel mode button repeatedly until you see the battery icon and the percentage of charge remaining.
To respond to a low-battery warning
The computer automatically alerts you when the battery power drops to a critically low level. If you do not restore power within a short time, the system hibernates.
Once the computer hibernates in this way, you won’t be able to turn it on again until you restore power by one of the following actions:
•Plug in the AC adapter (see “To connect AC power” on page 17).
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•Replace the battery with one that is charged (see “To install the battery” on page 16). The system must first be shut down or put into hibernate mode before changing the battery.
Note | If you plug in the AC adapter, you can continue to work while your battery recharges. |
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