System-Status Indicators
Symbol Color Meaning
1 Battery Green Enough battery power remains for operation.
Orange The battery pack is being charged.
Blinking
orange
The battery pack needs charging. If the indicator
starts blinking orange, the computer beeps three
times.
2 Drive in use Orange Data is being read from or written to the hard disk, the
diskette drive, or the CD-ROM drive.
Do not enter
suspend mode or turn off the computer when this
indicator is on.
3 Numeric lock Green The numeric keypad on the keyboard is enabled. You
enable or disable the keypad by pressing and holding
the Shift key, and pressing the NumLk key. For
details, see “Numeric Keypad” on page 15.
4 Caps lock Green Caps Lock mode is enabled. All alphabetic
characters (
A
–
Z
) are entered in capital letters without
using the Shift key. You enable or disable Caps Lock
mode by pressing the Caps Lock key.
5 Scroll lock Green Scroll Lock mode is enabled. The Arrow keys can be
used as screen-scroll function keys. The cursor
cannot be moved with the Arrow keys.
Not all
application programs support this function.
You
enable or disable Scroll Lock mode by pressing the
ScrLk key.
6 Suspend mode Green The computer is in suspend mode. (See page 93 for
details.)
Blinking
green
The computer is entering suspend mode or
hibernation mode, or is resuming normal operation.
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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