Caring For Your Battery - Texas Instruments TravelMate 5000 Series User Reference Manual

Battery Options

Caring for Your Battery

The following operating tips for your notebook can help you
prolong the life of a battery charge:
9-8 TravelMate Options
Keep the at the lowest comfortable brightness
LCD
level. Reducing brightness even a small amount can
significantly reduce power consumption and increase
operating time.
Press Fn-F4 or Suspend whenever you are not actively
using the computer. Press any key to resume normal
operation.
Press Suspend after writing to the hard disk to stop
the disk rotation. Then return to operation by pressing
any key.
Use the Power Savings items in Setup to turn off the
when not in use and to ensure that the hard disk
LCD
is not powered for longer periods than necessary.
You can choose between two
low. The computer uses less power at lower
speeds. When using an application that is not
-intensive (for example, many word processing
CPU
programs), press Ctrl-Alt-
To increase the speed again, press Ctrl-Alt-↑. This
speed control feature is not available in the Windows
environment or on most models that use a memory
manager. When high speed is selected, the Turbo LED
is lit.
You can minimize the number of times the computer
needs to access the hard disk by using disk caches or
disks.
RAM
Disconnect or turn off external options that you are
not using.
speeds: high and
CPU
↓
to reduce the
CPU
speed.
CPU