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Battery Operation................................................ 31
Inserting the Battery........................................ 31
Removing the battery....................................... 32
Charging the Battery........................................ 33
Discharging the battery .................................... 33
Battery Performance ........................................ 33
Power Management ............................................. 35
Standby Mode................................................. 35
Suspend (hibernate) mode................................ 35
Display ................................................................. 36
Opening and Closing the Display............................ 36
Screen Resolution................................................ 37
Display Properties................................................ 38
Connecting an External Monitor ............................. 40
Connecting a TV .................................................. 43
Data entry............................................................. 44
The Keyboard ..................................................... 44
Notebook-specific key combinations ................... 44
LED Keyboard light .......................................... 45
The multifunction touchpad................................... 46
Using the Multimedia Functions ......................... 47
The Hard drive....................................................... 49
Important Directories........................................... 50
The Optical Drive.................................................... 51
Loading a Disc .................................................... 51
Emergency Ejection of a blocked Disc ................. 53
Playing Back and Retrieving Data from Discs ........... 53
Regional Playback Information for DVD................... 54
Subjects Concerning the CD/DVD-Rewriter.............. 55
Recordable/Rewriteable Discs............................ 55
The Sound Card ..................................................... 56
External Audio Ports ............................................ 57
Modem ................................................................. 61
What is a Modem? ............................................... 61
Modem port........................................................ 62