HP pavilion xh500 Manuale Di Servizio

 

Traveling with Your Computer 

 

Using Battery Power 

  

Reference 

Guide 

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From the Windows taskbar 

The System Tray on the Windows taskbar can display a power icon that provides detailed 
battery status information (see Windows help for details). The icon looks like a battery 
when AC is not connected.  

•  Place pointer over the power icon to display the percentage of charge remaining.  
•  Right-click the power icon to view the options for displaying power information. 
•  Left-click the power icon to display a menu of the available power schemes. 

From the Windows Control Panel 

•  Click Start, Control Panel, Performance and Maintenance, Power Options, then click 

the Power Meter tab to see battery status. The Alarms and Advanced tabs provide 
additional Windows’ power-information options. 

From the status panel 

If your computer has a status panel, press the status panel mode button repeatedly until 
you see the battery icon and the percentage of charge remaining.  

To respond to a low-battery warning 

The computer automatically alerts you when the battery power drops to a critically low 
level. If you do not restore power within a short time, the system hibernates. 

Once the computer hibernates in this way, you won’t be able to turn it on again until you 
restore power by one of the following actions: 

•  Plug in the AC adapter (see “To connect AC power” on page 23). 

OR 

•  Replace the battery with one that is charged (see “To install the battery” on page 22). 

The system must first be shut down or put into hibernate mode before changing the 
battery. 

Note 

If you plug in the AC adapter, you can continue to work while your battery recharges.