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Replacing the battery, Low battery state – Intel Fujitsu P8010 User Manual

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65 - Lithium ion Battery

Low Battery State

When the battery is running low, the Battery Level indicator will glow red. 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

With the purchase of an additional battery, you can have a fully charged spare to swap with one that is not
charged.

Swapping Batteries when Additional Power Source is not Available

To swap batteries in your battery bay when you don’t have another power source available (such as an AC
Adapter or charged modular battery), follow these easy steps: (Figure 17)

1

Have a charged battery ready to install.

2

Shut down your notebook.

O

NCE

THE

LOW

BATTERY

NOTIFICATION

MESSAGE

APPEARS

,

YOU

NEED

TO

SAVE

ALL

YOUR

ACTIVE

DATA

AND

PUT

YOUR

L

IFE

B

OOK

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

L

IFE

B

OOK

NOTEBOOK

IS

IN

S

TANDBY

MODE

,

ANY

DATA

THAT

HAS

NOT

BEEN

SAVED

TO

THE

HARD

DRIVE

WILL

BE

LOST

.

U

SING

HEAVY

CURRENT

DEVICES

SUCH

AS

A

MODEM

OR

FREQUENT

DVD/CD-RW/CD-ROM

ACCESSES

MAY

PREVENT

CHARGING

COMPLETELY

.