battery status, 14 checking, 15 updating, 19, 70 battery warnings, 17 beeping, 18 meanings, 72 setting volume, 22 boot configuration DOS, 43 boot disks, 50 boot ROM, 40 booting, 50 brightness adjustment, 7, 10, 15 bus speed changing, 68 —A— ac adapter affects turn-off, 16 connecting, 16 conserves battery, 15 negative polarity , 16 problems, 71 running on, 16 socket for, 8 uses, 15 adding appointments, 58 events, 59 phone entries, 60 addresses I/O, 28 serial ports, 27 adjusting the display, 10 administrator password, 45 Advanced Power Management, 15 advanced settings ports, 28 alarms, 22, 59 ALT GR key, 11 APM, 15 applications FN keys, 11 Appointment Book, 22, 57 appointments, 58 ATA-type disks flash, 21 maintaining, 49 types, 21 AUTOEXEC.BAT, 47 automatic shutdown, 13, 18 —C— cables parallel printer, 29, 66 serial, 27 VGA adapter, 38 Calculator, 62 Caps Lock indicator, 14 Card Services , 34, 37 card slots as serial port, 37 contents of, 36 data storage, 20 drive letters, 20 inserting cards, 34 location, 7 new disk in, 36 not available, 50 removing cards, 35 supported disks, 21 card status, 14 card-eject lever, 7, 36 cards compatibility, 21, 37 data storage, 21, 33 drive letters, 20 flash disks, 21 I/O, 33, 37 I/O port names, 27 information about, 36 inserting, 20, 34 modem, 37 network, 37 RAM, 21 removing, 35 removing after use, 16 troubleshooting, 67 types, 33 write protection, 35 card-slot indicator, 36 CD-ROM drive, 39 charge level indicator, 14 —B— backing up files, 20, 48 backlight, 10, 15, 38 bad battery indicator, 18 battery charge indicator, 14 charge level, 14 charging light, 16 charging time, 17 conserving, 15 disposing of , 19 location, 8 low condition, 15, 17 operating time, 17 RAM card, 21 recharging, 16 recycling , 19 replacing, 18, 70 safeguards, 15 73