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Operation
This section gives an overview of the notebook’s operation.
Turning the Notebook On and Off
You can start and stop the notebook using its power button or blue standby button. However, at times you may want to use certain methods to start or stop the
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Power mode | To enter this mode | To turn on again |
Allow timeout. | Press any key or | |
(Power status LED stays green.) |
| move a pointing |
Saves minimal power. |
| device to restore |
Turns off display and hard disk. |
| the display (“Instant |
Restarts quickly. |
| On”). |
Maintains network connections. |
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Standby mode | Press the blue standby button | Press the blue |
(Power status LED turns amber.) | standby button to | |
Saves significant power. | click Start, Shutdown, Standby | display your current |
Turns off display, hard drive, and other | session (“Instant- | |
components. | allow timeout (Windows 98 only). | On”). |
Maintains current session in SDRAM. |
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Restarts quickly. |
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Restores network connections. |
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Hibernate mode | Press Fn+F12 | Press the blue |
(Power status LED turns off.) | standby button to | |
Saves maximum power. | Click Start, Shut Down, Hibernate | restart and restore |
Saves current session to disk, then shuts down. | (Windows 2000 only) | your previous |
Restores network connections. | session. | |
| allow timeout (Windows 98 only). |
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Shut down (off) | Click Start, Shut Down, Shut down | Press the blue |
(Power status LED turns off.) | (recommended) | standby button to |
Saves maximum power. | restart with a new | |
Turns off without saving current session. | slide the power button. | session. |
At startup, resets everything, starts a new session, |
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and restores network connections with |
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card, and with some PCMCIA cards. |
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Product Information | HP OmniBook XE3 |