Compaq Presario C300 Notebook PC User Guide - Page 5

Critical low-battery condition 43 Resolving low-battery conditions 44 When external power is available 44 When a charged battery pack is available 44 When no power source is available 44 When the computer cannot restore from hibernation 44 Calibrating a battery pack 45 When to calibrate 45 How to calibrate 45 Step 1: Charging the battery pack 45 Step 2: Discharging the battery pack 46 Step 3: Recharging the battery pack 47 Conserving battery power 47 Conserving power as you work 47 Selecting power conservation settings 48 Storing a battery pack ...48 Disposing of a used battery pack 48 4 Drives Drive care ...49 IDE drive light ...50 Hard drive ...51 Optical drives ...54 Inserting an optical disc ...55 Removing an optical disc (with power 56 Removing an optical disc (without power 57 Avoiding standby or hibernation 58 5 Multimedia Multimedia hardware ...59 Using the optical drive ...59 Identifying the installed optical drive 59 Inserting an optical disc 60 Removing an optical disc (with power 61 Removing an optical disc (without power 62 Using media activity hotkeys 63 Using the audio features ...64 Using the audio-in (microphone) jack 64 Using the audio-out (headphone) jack 64 Adjusting the volume 65 Using the video features ...66 Using the external monitor port 66 Using the S-Video-out jack 67 Multimedia software ...68 Identifying preinstalled multimedia software 68 Installing multimedia software from a CD (select models only 68 Using multimedia software 69 Protecting playback ...70 Protecting the CD or DVD write process 70 Changing DVD region settings 71 ENWW v