IBM 240 manual Color, NumLk

System status indicators

Symbol

Color

Meaning

.1/

Battery

status

Green

Enough

battery

power

remains

for

operation.

Blinking

orange

The

battery

pack needs to be charged

Orange

The

battery

pack

is

being

charged.

.2/

Suspend

mode

Green

The

computer

is

in

suspend

mode

Blinking

green

The

computer

is

entering

suspend

or

hibernation mode, or is resuming

normal opera-

tion.

.3/

HDD

in

use

Orange

Data

is

being

read

from

or

written

to

the

hard

disk.

Do

not

enter

suspend

mode

or

power off

the

computer

when this indicator is on.

.4/

Numeric

lock

Green

The

numeric

keypad on the keyboard is

enabled. You enable or disable the keypad by

pressing

and

holdingFn theky, and pressing

the NumLk

key.

For

details,

see

“Numeric

keypad”

on

page 14.

.5/

Caps

lock

Green

Caps

Lock

mode

is

enabled.

All

alphabetic

characters(A-Z)are entered in capital letters

without theShift

key being pressed. You enable

or

disable

the Caps Lock mode by

pressing

and

holding

theFn

key,

and

pressingCaps

the

Lock

key.

.6/

Scroll

lock

Green

Scroll

Lock

mode

is

enabledArrow.

Thekeys

can be used as screen-scroll function keys. The

cursor

cannot be

moved

withArrow

thekys.

Not

all

application

programs

support

this

func-

tion. You enable or disable Scroll Lock mode by

pressing

and

holdingFn theky, and pressing

theScrLk

key.

.7/

Power

on

Green

The

computer

is operational. This indicator is on

when the computer is on and

not

in

suspend

mode.

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