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- Lithium ion Battery
Low Battery State
When the battery is running low, the Battery Level indicator will blink orange. If you do not respond to
the low battery alarm, the batteries will continue to discharge until they are too low to operate. Your
notebook will then go into Standby mode to try and protect your data for as long as possible. There is no
guarantee that your data will not be lost once the system reaches this point.
Once your notebook goes into Dead Battery Suspend mode you will be unable to resume operation until
you provide a source of power either from an adapter, or a charged battery. Once you have provided power,
you will need to press the Suspend/Resume button to resume operation. In the Dead Battery Suspend
mode, your data can be maintained for some time, but if a power source is not provided promptly, the
Power indicator will stop flashing and go out, meaning that you have lost the data that was not stored.
Once you provide power, you can continue to use your system while an adapter is charging the battery.
Replacing the Battery
Your notebook comes with one battery pack; you might want to consider purchasing a spare. By keeping
a spare battery fully charged, you can immediately swap with one that is not charged.
There are two ways to swap batteries: cold- and hot-swapping. Cold-swapping means swapping batteries
when the system is powered down; hot-swapping is performed when the system is powered by AC power:
U
SING
HEAVY
CURRENT
DEVICES
OR
FREQUENT
EXTERNAL
OPTICAL
DRIVE
ACCESSES
MAY
PREVENT
CHARGING
COMPLETELY
.
■
O
NCE
THE
LOW
BATTERY
NOTIFICATION
MESSAGE
APPEARS
,
YOU
NEED
TO
SAVE
ALL
YOUR
ACTIVE
DATA
AND
PUT
YOUR
NOTEBOOK
INTO
S
TANDBY
MODE
UNTIL
YOU
CAN
PROVIDE
A
NEW
POWER
SOURCE
. Y
OU
SHOULD
PROVIDE
A
CHARGED
BATTERY
,
AN
AC
POWER
ADAPTER
,
OR
A
UTO
/A
IRLINE
ADAPTER
AS
SOON
AS
POSSIBLE
.
■
W
HEN
YOU
ARE
IN
S
TANDBY
MODE
THERE
MUST
ALWAYS
BE
AT
LEAST
ONE
POWER
SOURCE
ACTIVE
. I
F
YOU
REMOVE
ALL
POWER
SOURCES
WHILE
YOUR
NOTEBOOK
IS
IN
S
TANDBY
MODE
,
ANY
DATA
THAT
HAS
NOT
BEEN
SAVED
TO
THE
HARD
DRIVE
WILL
BE
LOST
.