Charging The Rtc Battery - Toshiba M205-S810 - Portege - Pentium M 1.5 GHz User Manual

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Mobile Computing
Charging batteries
NOTE
NOTE
The battery light (
charged, and glows green when it is fully charged.
A battery may not start charging immediately under the
following conditions:
❖
The battery is extremely hot or cold. To ensure that the
battery charges to its full capacity, wait until it reaches
room temperature.
❖
The battery is almost completely discharged. Leave the
power connected and the battery should begin charging
after a few minutes.
The battery charges the RTC battery.
During normal use, the battery keeps the RTC battery
adequately charged. Occasionally, the RTC battery may lose
their charge completely, especially if you've had the
computer turned off for a long time.

Charging the RTC battery

Your computer has an internal real-time clock (RTC) battery.
The RTC battery powers the System Time Clock and BIOS
memory used to store your computer's configuration settings.
When fully charged, it maintains this information for up to a
month when the computer is powered off.
The RTC battery may have become completely discharged
while your computer was shipped, resulting in the following
error message during startup:
Battery life and charge time may vary depending on the
applications, power management settings, and features used.
Use only the battery charger supplied by Toshiba for use with
your computer's batteries.
) glows amber while the battery is being