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3. Getting Started
Using the Battery Pack
Before using your Notebook PC on the road
Before you use your Notebook PC on the road, you will have to charge the battery pack. The battery
pack begins to charge as soon as the Notebook PC is connected to external power. Fully charge the
battery pack before using it for the first time. A new battery pack must completely charge before the
Notebook PC is disconnected from external power. The battery pack is fully charged when the battery
charge light turns OFF. It takes about 3 hours to fully charge the battery when the Notebook PC is
turned OFF and about 5 hours when the Notebook PC is turned ON.
Battery Care
The Li-Ion battery pack has no “Memory Effect” (officially called “Voltage Depressor”) but like all
rechargeable batteries, the number of charges is limited. Fully draining and charging the battery once a
day every day will last over a year but how long beyond that will depend on your environment tempera-
ture and humidity. Make sure that the battery is used in a temperature range between 10˚C and 29˚C
(50˚F and 85˚F), taking into account that the Notebook PC’s internal temperature is higher than the
outside. Any temperatures above or below this range will shorten the life of the battery. But in any case,
the battery’s usage time will eventually be too short to use and a new one must be purchased.
Operating Systems
This Notebook PC offers its customers the choice of a pre-installed operating system such as Microsoft
Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows NT 4.0. The choices and languages will depend on territory.
Support Software
This Notebook PC will come with a support CD that provides BIOS, drivers and applications to enable
hardware features, extend functionality, help manage your Notebook PC, or add functionality not pro-
vided by the native operating system. If updates or replacement of the support CD is necessary, contact
your dealer for web sites to download individual software drivers and utilities.
The support CD contains all drivers, utilities and software for all popular operating systems including
those that have been pre-installed. The support CD does not include the operating system itself. The
support CD is necessary even if your Notebook PC came pre-configured in order to provide additional
software not included as part of the factory pre-install.
A recovery CD is optional and includes an image of all the drivers and utilities included on the factory
installed hard drive as well as the operating system itself. The recovery CD provides a comprehensive
recovery solution that quickly restores the Notebook PC’s operating system and software to its original
working state provided that your hard disk drive is in good working order. Contact your retailer if you
require such a solution.