What To Do When The Battery Alarm Sounds - Toshiba Satellite 110 Series User Manual

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Taking Your Computer on the Road
Running the Computer on Battery Power

What to Do When the Battery Alarm Sounds

Don't panic.
The computer has three alarms, designed to give you sufficient
warning before your battery becomes fully discharged. Two of the
alarms, the Low Battery Alarm and the Critical Battery Alarm,
function only when you're running Windows 95 and MaxTime is
open (although MaxTime may be minimized). The third, the
Emergency Battery Alert, operates at all times.
This section describes the three battery alarms, what they mean
and how to set each one to fit your personal computing style.
Going... the Low Battery Alarm
If MaxTime is open, it warns you when you're beginning to get
low on battery power. MaxTime beeps once and displays the Low
Battery Alarm warning. This means you have less than 20% bat-
tery capacity remaining, unless you've changed this level.
Low BatteryAlarm
Your computer's battery po wer is lo w.
You have approximately 30 min utes le ft
The Low Battery Alarm warning
This warning is just a reminder that the battery charge is a finite
resource that can eventually run out. Unless you've told the sys-
tem to display this message at a really low power level, you don't
need to do anything at this point.
To close the Alarm dialog box, click OK. To change the level of
charge that sets off this warning, see "Setting the Alarms" on
page 116.
Part I: Getting To Know Your Computer
on this battery.
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