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. When the
indicator starts blinking orange, the computer
beeps three times.
Orange The battery pack is being charged.
.2/ Suspend mode Green
The computer is in suspend mode. (
Online
User's Guide
.)
Blinking
green
The computer is entering suspend or hibernation
mode or is resuming normal operation.
.3/ Hard disk in use Orange Data is being read from or written to the hard disk
or read from DVD or CD-ROM drive.
Do not enter
the computer into 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
holding the Shift key, and pressing the NumLk
key. For details “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 the Shift key being pressed. You enable
or disable Caps Lock mode by pressing the Caps
Lock key.
.6/ 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.
.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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