Gateway 2500 Guía Del Usuario

Chapter 4: Managing Power Usage     57

Swapping the battery pack

Battery packs can be “warm-swapped”. This means you can change battery 
packs while in Suspend mode (Windows 95) or Standby mode (Windows 
98). 

The backup battery that supports warm swapping has a limited power 
supply (about ten minutes). Make the battery swap quickly to conserve the 
backup battery power.

Save all work.

If you are using Windows 95 or NT click 

on the taskbar, then 

 to put the system into suspend mode.

- OR -

If you are using Windows 98 click 

on the taskbar, then click 

, 

, then 

to put the system into standby mode.

- OR -

Shut down the system.

Close the LCD panel and turn your notebook over.

Slide the battery release latch to release the battery pack.

To remove the battery pack