Laptop User Manual
Incertaincircumstances,thecomputergoesintosleepmodeautomatically:
•Afteraperiodofinactivityspeciedinpowerplansettings
•Whenthebatteryindicatorblinksorange,indicatingthatthebatterypowerislow
Tocausethecomputertoreturnfromsleepmodeandresumeoperation,dooneofthefollowing:
•PresstheFnkey.
•OpentheLCDcover.
•Turnonthepowerbutton.
Also,ineitherofthefollowingevents,thecomputerautomaticallyreturnsfromsleepmodeandresumes
operation:
•Theringindicator(RI)issignaledbyaserialdeviceoraPCCarddevice.
•Thetimesetontheresumetimerelapses.
Note:Thecomputerdoesnotacceptanyinputimmediatelyafteritenterssleepmode.Waitafew
secondsbeforetakinganyactiontoreenteroperationmode.
Hibernationmode
Inhibernationmode,thefollowingoccurs:
•Thesystemstatus,RAM,VRAM,andsetupdataarestoredontheharddisk.
•Thesystemispoweredoff.
Note:Ifthecomputerentersthehibernationmodewhileitisdockedtothedockingstation,donotundockit
beforeresumingnormaloperation.Ifyoudoundockitandthentrytoresumenormaloperation,youwillget
anerrormessage,andyouwillhavetorestartthesystem.
Toputthecomputerintohibernationmode,usethePowerManagerprogramtodeneoneofthefollowing
actionsastheeventthatcausesthesystemtogointohibernationmode.Thenperformthedenedaction.
•Closingthelid.
•Pressingthepowerbutton.
•PressingFn+F4.
Also,thecomputergoesintohibernationmodeautomaticallyafteraperiodofinactivityspeciedinpower
plansettings
Whenthepoweristurnedon,thecomputerreturnsfromhibernationmodeandresumesoperation.The
hibernationleinthebootrecordontheharddiskdriveisread,andsystemstatusisrestoredfromthe
harddiskdrive.
Symptom-to-FRUindex
Thissectioncontainsfollowinginformation:
•“Numericerrorcodes”onpage42
•“Errormessages”onpage43
•“Beepsymptoms”onpage43
•“No-beepsymptoms”onpage44
•“LCD-relatedsymptoms”onpage44
•“Intermittentproblems”onpage45
•“Undeterminedproblems”onpage45
Thesymptom-to-FRUindexinthissectionlistssymptomsanderrorsandtheirpossiblecauses.Themost
likelycauseislistedrst,inboldfacetype.
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