Hardware Guide

2–8 Hardware Guide
Pointing Devices and Keyboard
Decreasing Screen Brightness (fn+f9)
Press fn+f9 to decrease screen brightness. Hold down the hotkey to
change the brightness level incrementally.
Increasing Screen Brightness (fn+f10)
Press fn+f10 to increase screen brightness. Hold down the hotkey
to change the brightness level incrementally.
Displaying System Information (fn+esc)
Press fn+esc to display information about system hardware
components and software version numbers. Press
fn+esc a second
time to remove the system information from the screen.
✎
The system BIOS date is the version number of the system ROM.
The BIOS date may display in a decimal format, such as
10/19/2002 F.07.
Using Hotkeys and Shortcut Keys with
External Keyboards
The following table describes how certain hotkeys and shortcut
keys are used on external keyboards:
Notebook keys External keyboard keys
fn+esc scroll lock+scroll lock+esc
fn+f8 scroll lock+scroll lock+f8