HP Presario manual 5

Critical low-battery condition .............................................................	43
Resolving low-battery conditions .......................................................................	44
When external power is available .....................................................	44
When a charged battery pack is available ........................................	44
When no power source is available ..................................................	44
When the computer cannot restore from hibernation .......................	44
Calibrating a battery pack ..................................................................................................	45
When to calibrate ..............................................................................................	45
How to calibrate ................................................................................................	45
Step 1: Charging the battery pack ....................................................	45
Step 2: Discharging the battery pack ................................................	46
Step 3: Recharging the battery pack ................................................	47
Conserving battery power ..................................................................................................	47
Conserving power as you work .........................................................................	47
Selecting power conservation settings ..............................................................	48
Storing a battery pack ........................................................................................................	48
Disposing of a used battery pack .......................................................................................	48
4 Drives
Drive care ...........................................................................................................................................	49
IDE drive light .....................................................................................................................................	50
Hard drive ...........................................................................................................................................	51
Optical drives ......................................................................................................................................	54
Inserting an optical disc .....................................................................................................	55
Removing an optical disc (with power) ..............................................................................	56
Removing an optical disc (without power) .........................................................................	57
Avoiding standby or hibernation ........................................................................................	58
5 Multimedia
Multimedia hardware ..........................................................................................................................	59
Using the optical drive .......................................................................................................	59
Identifying the installed optical drive .................................................................	59
Inserting an optical disc .....................................................................................	60
Removing an optical disc (with power) ..............................................................	61
Removing an optical disc (without power) .........................................................	62
Using media activity hotkeys .............................................................................................	63
Using the audio features ....................................................................................................	64
Using the audio-in (microphone) jack ................................................................	64
Using the audio-out (headphone) jack ..............................................................	64
Adjusting the volume .........................................................................................	65
Using the video features ....................................................................................................	66
Using the external monitor port .........................................................................	66
Using the S-Video-out jack ................................................................................	67
Multimedia software ...........................................................................................................................	68
Identifying preinstalled multimedia software ......................................................................	68
Installing multimedia software from a CD (select models only) .........................................	68
Using multimedia software .................................................................................................	69
Protecting playback ...........................................................................................................	70
Protecting the CD or DVD write process ...........................................................................	70
Changing DVD region settings ..........................................................................................	71

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