User manual TOSHIBA SATELLITE L450

[. . . ] PCMCIA is a trademark of the Personal Computer Memory Card International Association. Netscape 7. 0 is a registered trademark of Netscape Communications Corporation. PowerQuest and Drive Image are registered trademarks of PowerQuest Corporation. The DVD player found in some models of the LifeBook notebook incorporates copyright protection technology that is protected by method claims of certain U. S. [. . . ] Verify the condition of the batteries using the Status Indicator panel and replace or remove any batteries that are shorted. (See Status Indicator Panel on page 11 for more information) Use both the primary battery and an optional second battery and/or use a power adapter for this application when at all possible. Your power adapter has failed or lost its power source. Your installed batteries are faulty. The batteries seem to discharge too quickly. You are running an application that uses a great deal of power due to frequent hard drive access or DVD/CD-ROM access, use of a modem card or a LAN PC card. The batteries are too hot or too cold. Check the power management and/or setup utility settings in the Power Options menu and adjust according to your operating needs. The Charging icon on the Status Indicator Panel will flash when the battery is outside its operating range. 60 S Series. book Page 61 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:13 PM Tro ublesho oting Problem Possible Cause Possible Solutions Shutdown and Startup Problems The Power/Suspend/ Resume button does not work. The Power/Suspend/Resume button is disabled from the Advanced submenu of the Power Options menu. The system powers up and displays power-on information, but fails to load the operating system. The boot sequence settings of the setup utility are not compatible with your configuration. You have a secured system requiring a password to load your operating system. An error message is displayed on the screen during the notebook (boot) sequence. This may need to be a few seconds if your application is preventing the CPU from checking for button pushes. Remove all foreign objects from the keyboard. The power management timeouts may be set for very short intervals and you failed to notice the display come on and go off again. Your system display won't turn on when the system is turned on or when the system has resumed. The system may be passwordprotected. A foreign object, such as a paper clip, is stuck between the display and the keyboard. If the spots are very tiny and few in number, this is normal for a large LCD display. If the spots are numerous or large enough to interfere with your operation needs. This is normal; do nothing. Display is faulty; contact your support representative. The application display uses only a portion of your screen and is surrounded by a dark frame. You are running an application that does not support 800 x 600/1024 x 768 pixel resolution display and display compression is enabled. Display compression gives a clearer but smaller display for applications that do not support 800 x 600/1024 x 768 pixel resolution. You can fill the screen but have less resolution by changing your display compression setting, (See the Video Features submenu, located within the Advanced menu of the BIOS. (See BIOS Setup Utility on page 29 for more information) 62 S Series. book Page 63 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:13 PM Tro ublesho oting Problem Possible Cause Possible Solutions The display is dark when on battery power. You have connected an external monitor and it does not display any information. The Power Management utility default is set on low brightness to conserve power. Your BIOS setup is not set to enable your external monitor. Press [Fn] + [F7] to increase brightness or doubleclick on the battery gauge and adjust Power Control under battery settings. Try toggling the video destination by pressing [Fn] and [F10] together, or check your BIOS setup and enable your external monitor. (See the Video Features submenu, located within the Advanced Menu of the BIOS. [. . . ] In order to improve security, the network key is set allowing no communication unless "Network name (SSID)" coincides with the network key. Open system authentication One of network authentication types for wireless LAN. Since there is no check of network key upon authentication, clients can connect to the access point without 111 S Series. book Page 112 Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:13 PM LifeBook S2000 Notebook ­ Appendix submitting correct network keys. However, in case of actual communications, the same network key must be set. [. . . ]