The first low-battery warning—a blinking amber battery status indicator—occurs when you have about 15 minutes of battery life left under current conditions

and the computer is not connected to an electrical outlet. Figure 5 shows the battery status indicator.

Figure 5. Status Lights

NOTICE: When you see a low-battery warning, save your work immediately. Then replace the battery or connect your computer to

an electrical outlet. If your computer uses a nickel-metal hydride battery and you ignore the first low-battery warning, the computer

may activate S2D mode before displaying a second low-battery warning.

After the first low-battery warning, if no input/output (I/O) activity occurs within 75 seconds, the computer activates S2D mode. If the computer has no S2D

partition, the computer enters standby mode. The computer can preserve data for several hours in standby mode.

If you have set the computer to enter S2D mode after a certain amount of time with no I/O activity, the computer enters S2D mode before the final low-battery

warning. Once S2D mode is activated, no further power is consumed.

NOTICE: Never turn off the computer while the drive access indicator is on. Doing so could cause data loss. Instead, close all of

your application programs before you turn off the computer.

Second Low-Battery Warning

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1 Power indicator

2 Drive access indicator

3 Battery status indicator

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