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About Your Power Management Features, Charging the Battery Packs

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About Your Power Management Features To extend the battery life and hard drive performance of your Armada Personal Computer, Compaq strongly recommends you do the following: s Leave your power management settings enabled, as shipped from Compaq. s If the hard drive timeout is set to zero minutes in the F10 Computer Setup utility, or to Off in the Custom battery conservation setting in Windows 95, change these settings to more conservative values. s Set the hard drive, screen saver, processor speed, and display brightness features to conservative settings. s Enable your Hibernation feature to protect your data. Charging the Battery Pack(s) Follow these steps to fully charge battery packs: 1. Connect the AC Adapter to the computer, then into an electrical outlet. Or connect the computer to the Automobile Adapter or dock the computer in the convenience base. 2. Turn on the computer if you want to use it while the battery packs are charging. 3. If more than one battery is installed in the system, only one battery will charge at a time, beginning with the battery pack in the computer DualBay, then the battery pack in the handle, and finally the battery pack in the Mobile CD Expansion Unit (MCD). The battery packs take several hours to fully charge with the computer turned off and longer with the computer turned on. The battery light on the computer turns on when a battery pack in the computer is charging or awaiting a charge. When the battery packs are fully charged, the battery light turns off. After the battery packs are fully charged, the computer maintains the batterys' charge as long as the computer is connected to external power. Managing Power 5-13

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Managing Power
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About Your Power Management Features
To extend the battery life and hard drive performance of your
Armada Personal Computer, Compaq strongly recommends you
do the following:
■
Leave your power management settings enabled, as shipped
from Compaq.
■
If the hard drive timeout is set to zero minutes in the
F10
Computer Setup utility, or to Off in the Custom battery
conservation setting in Windows 95, change these settings to
more conservative values.
■
Set the hard drive, screen saver, processor speed, and display
brightness features to conservative settings.
■
Enable your Hibernation feature to protect your data.
Charging the Battery Pack(s)
Follow these steps to fully charge battery packs:
1.
Connect the AC Adapter to the computer, then into an
electrical outlet. Or connect the computer to the Automobile
Adapter or dock the computer in the convenience base.
2.
Turn on the computer if you want to use it while the battery
packs are charging.
3.
If more than one battery is installed in the system, only one
battery will charge at a time, beginning with the battery pack
in the computer DualBay, then the battery pack in the handle,
and finally the battery pack in the Mobile CD Expansion Unit
(MCD).
The battery packs take several hours to fully charge with the
computer turned off and longer with the computer turned on. The
battery light on the computer turns on when a battery pack in the
computer is charging or awaiting a charge. When the battery
packs are fully charged, the battery light turns off.
After the battery packs are fully charged, the computer maintains
the batterys’ charge as long as the computer is connected to
external power.