Texas Instruments TravelMate 6100 Series User Manual page 77

When you are using your computer away from your desktop, you are
usually running on battery power. This chapter shows you how to
maximize your battery life.
General Information
about Batteries
Charging Batteries
Prolonging Battery
Life
Responding to a
Low Battery
Condition
Battery characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2
Battery safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2
Disposing of used battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3
Ordering a spare battery
Determining current charge . . . . . . . . . . . 6-4
Charging the battery in the computer . . . . 6-4
Increasing BatteryPro level . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6
Reducing screen brightness . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6
Caching the hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6
Lowering inactivity timeouts . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7
Removing FDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7
Suspending operation while idle . . . . . . . . 6-7
Save to disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-8
Saving files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-8
Turning off alarm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-8
Reducing screen brightness . . . . . . . . . . . 6-8
Connecting AC adapter
Suspending operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-8
Replacing battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9
Suspending to Disk
Battery Operation
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-8
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9
Battery Operation 6-1
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