Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E531 - Chapter 3. You and Your Computer

Incertaincircumstances,thecomputergoesintosleepmodeautomatically:
•Afteraperiodofinactivityspeciedinpowerplansettings
•Whenthebatterypowerislow
Tocausethecomputertoreturnfromsleepmodeandresumeoperation,dooneofthefollowing:
•Pressanykey.
•OpentheLCDcover.
•Turnonthepowerbutton.
Also,ineitherofthefollowingevents,thecomputerautomaticallyreturnsfromsleepmodeandresumes
operation:
•Theringindicator(RI)issignaledbyaserialdeviceoraPCCarddevice.
•Thetimesetontheresumetimerelapses.
Note:Thecomputerdoesnotacceptanyinputimmediatelyafteritenterssleepmode.Waitafew
secondsbeforetakinganyactiontoreenteroperationmode.
Hibernationmode
Inhibernationmode,thefollowingoccurs:
•Thesystemstatus,RAM,VRAM,andsetupdataarestoredontheharddiskdriveorsolid-statedrive.
•Thesystemispoweredoff.
Note:Ifthecomputerentersthehibernationmodewhileitisconnectedtothedock,donotdisconnectit
beforeresumingnormaloperation.Ifyoudodisconnectitandthentrytoresumenormaloperation,youwill
getanerrormessage,andyouwillhavetorestartthesystem.
Ifyouhavedenedoneofthefollowingactionsastheeventthatcausesthesystemtogointohibernation
mode,performthataction.
•Closingthelid.
•Pressingthepowerbutton.
Also,thecomputergoesintohibernationmodeautomaticallyafteraperiodofinactivityspeciedinpower
plansettings
Whenthepoweristurnedon,thecomputerreturnsfromhibernationmodeandresumesoperation.The
hibernationleinthebootrecordontheharddiskdriveorsolid-statedriveisread,andsystemstatusis
restoredfromtheharddiskdriveorsolid-statedrive.
Symptom-to-FRUindex
Thissectioncontainsfollowinginformation:
•“Numericerrorcodes”onpage40
•“Errormessages”onpage41
•“No-beepsymptoms”onpage42
•“LCD-relatedsymptoms”onpage42
•“Intermittentproblems”onpage43
•“Undeterminedproblems”onpage43
Thesymptom-to-FRUindexinthissectionlistssymptomsanderrorsandtheirpossiblecauses.Themost
likelycauseislistedrst,inboldfacetype.
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