Made By Humans E Series ユーザーガイド

Your LifeBook Series notebook has many options and 
features for conserving battery power. Some of these 
features are automatic and need no user intervention, 
such as those for the internal modem. However, others 
depend on the parameters you set to best suit your oper-
ating conditions, such as those for the display brightness. 
Internal power management for your notebook may be 
controlled from settings made in your operating system, 
pre-bundled power management application, or from 
settings made in BIOS setup utility,.

Besides the options available for conserving battery 
power, there are also some things that you can do to 
prevent your battery from running down as quickly.
For example, you can create an appropriate power saving 
profile, put your notebook into Suspend mode when it
is not performing an operation, and you can limit the 
use of high power devices. As with all mobile, battery 
powered computers, there is a trade-off between
performance and power savings.

When your notebook is active, the Power/Suspend/
Resume button can be used to manually put your note-
book into Suspend mode. Push the Power/Suspend/
Resume button when your notebook is active, but not 
actively accessing anything, and immediately release the 
button. You will hear two short beeps and your system 
will enter Suspend mode.

If your notebook is suspended, pushing the Power/
Suspend/Resume button will return your notebook to 
active operation. You can tell whether or not your system 
is in Suspend mode by looking at the Power indicator.
(See figure 2-8 on page 16 for location) If the indicator is 
visible and not flashing, your notebook is fully opera-
tional. If the indicator is both visible and flashing, your 
notebook is in Suspend mode. If the indicator is not 
visible at all, the power is off or your notebook is in 
Save-to-Disk mode (See Save-to-Disk Mode)

Suspend or Standby mode in Windows 98 saves the 
contents of your notebook’s system memory during 
periods of inactivity by maintaining power to critical 
parts. This mode will turn off the CPU, the display, the 
hard drive, and all of the other internal components 
except those necessary to maintain system memory and 
allow for restarting. Your notebook can be put in 
Suspend mode by:

■

Pressing the Power/Suspend/Resume button when 
your system is turned on.

■

Selecting Standby from the Windows Shut Down menu.

■

Selecting System Suspend from the Power Panel
toolbar menu (Windows 95 and Windows NT only).

■

Timing out from lack of activity.

■

Allowing the battery to reach the Dead Battery
Warning condition.

Your notebook’s system memory typically stores the 
file(s) on which you are working, open application(s) 
information, and any other data required to support the 
operation(s) in progress. When you resume operation 
from Suspend mode, your notebook will return to the 
point where it left off. You must use the Power/Suspend/
Resume button to resume operation, and there must be 
an adequate power source available, or your notebook 
will not resume.

The Save-to-Disk mode saves the contents of your
notebook’s system memory to the hard drive as a part
of the Suspend/Resume mode. Your notebook is pre-
configured to perform this function. The Save-to-Disk 
mode can also be configured through the system BIOS
to run in other ways depending on what you need to 
accomplish. (See BIOS Setup Utility on page 41 for more 
information)

If you are running your notebook on battery power, be 
aware that the battery continues to discharge while 
your notebook is in Suspend mode, though not as fast 
as when fully operational.