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Toshiba Tecra 8100 User Manual

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Tecra 8100 User's Manual – 8100_UK.DOC – ENGLISH – Printed on 13/12/99 as IM8100UK

Chapter 5 The Keyboard

............................................................ 5-1

Light grey keys ......................................................................................5-1
F1…F12 function keys...........................................................................5-2
Soft Keys: Alt Gr Key Combinations....................................................5-2

The euro symbol ................................................................................5-2

Soft keys: Fn key combinations ...........................................................5-3

Emulating keys on enhanced keyboard.............................................5-3
Hot keys.............................................................................................5-4
Windows 95/98 special keys .............................................................5-6
Emulating Fn key on external keyboard.............................................5-6

Keypad overlay ......................................................................................5-6

Turning on the overlays .....................................................................5-6
Temporarily using normal keyboard...................................................5-7
Temporarily using overlay ..................................................................5-8
Temporarily changing modes.............................................................5-8

Generating ASCII characters................................................................5-8

Chapter 6 Power and Power-Up Modes

................................... 6-1

Power conditions ..................................................................................6-1
Power indicators ...................................................................................6-3

Battery indicators ...............................................................................6-3
DC IN indicator ..................................................................................6-3
Power indicator ..................................................................................6-4

Battery types ..........................................................................................6-4

Main battery .......................................................................................6-4
Secondary battery (option).................................................................6-5
Real Time Clock battery.....................................................................6-5

Care and use of the battery pack .........................................................6-6

Safety precautions .............................................................................6-6
Charging the batteries .......................................................................6-7
Monitoring battery capacity ................................................................6-8
Maximising battery operating time .....................................................6-9
Retaining data with power off...........................................................6-10
Extending battery life .......................................................................6-10

Replacing the battery pack .................................................................6-10

Removing the battery pack ..............................................................6-11
Installing the battery pack ................................................................6-12

Starting the computer by password ..................................................6-13
Power-up modes .................................................................................6-14

Boot mode .......................................................................................6-14
Resume mode .................................................................................6-15
Automatic enabling of Resume........................................................6-16
Resume precautions........................................................................6-16
Resume error conditions..................................................................6-17