Toshiba A75-S213 User Guide

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How much you use the hard disk and other drives

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Whether you use any optional devices to which the 
battery supplies power, such as a PC Card

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Where you are working—since operating time decreases 
at low temperatures

There are various ways in which you can conserve power and 
extend the operating time of your battery:

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Enable Standby or Hibernation, which saves power when 
you turn off the computer and turn it back on again.

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Use Toshiba’s power-saving options.

These power-saving options control the way in which the 
computer is configured. By using them, you can greatly 
increase the length of time you can use the computer before 
you need to recharge the battery.

Toshiba has combined these options into preset power usage 
modes. 

When the battery runs low you can

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Plug the computer into an external power source and 
recharge the battery.

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Put the computer in Hibernate mode and replace the 
battery with a charged spare.

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Save your work and turn off the computer.

If you do not manage to do any of these things before the 
battery completely runs out of power, the computer 
automatically enters Hibernate mode and turns itself off. 
Hibernate mode keeps track of where you were so, when you 
turn on the power again, you can continue where you left off. 

The computer stores the information on what you were doing 
until the battery runs out of power. If you have Hibernate 
mode enabled (the default), the computer copies the details of