Troubleshooting and tips
Battery indicator no longer appears in status indicator panel
Battery:
Cause
Troubleshooting
No battery in stalled or no contact between
notebook and battery.
► Check whether the battery is installed
correctly in its compartment.
or
► Charge the battery.
► If the operating time of the battery life is
extremely short, the battery is probably
too old. Replace batte ry if necessary.
The battery discharges too quickly
Battery:
Cause
Troubleshooting
The battery is either too hot or too cold. In this
case the batt ery indicator flashes.
► Bring th e notebook up/down to a normal
temperature again.
► If the operating time of the battery life is
extremely short, the b attery is probably too
old. Replace battery if necessary.
You may have an application running th at
consumes a great deal of power due to frequent
accessing of the hard disk or optical drive.
► Use the mains adapter as frequently as
possible.
The maximum brightness may have been set
for the screen .
► Set the screen slightly darker with the
key combination for Decreasing the screen
brightness in order to reduce the amount of
power being drawn.
The energy-saving functio
ns have been
deactivated.
Windows XP:
► Check the settings in the BIOS Setup (in the
Power menu) and under Windows ( Start -
(Settings) - Control Panel - Power O ptions)and
adjust the para meters.
Windows Vista:
► Check the settings in the BIOS Setup (in the
Power menu) and under Windows ( Start -
(Settings) - Control Panel – Mobile PC - Power
Options), and adjust the parame ters.
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