Initiating and exiting sleep, Enabling and exiting user-initiated hibernation, Using the power meter and power settings – HP ProBook 430 G2 Notebook PC User Manual

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When Sleep is initiated, the power lights blink and the screen clears. Your work is saved to memory.

CAUTION:

To reduce the risk of possible audio and video degradation, loss of audio or video

playback functionality, or loss of information, do not initiate Sleep while reading from or writing to a

disc or an external memory card.

NOTE:

You cannot initiate any type of networking connection or perform any computer functions

while the computer is in the Sleep state.

Initiating and exiting Sleep

With the computer on, you can initiate Sleep in any of the following ways:

Briefly press the power button.

From the Start screen, point to the upper-right or lower-right corner of the screen. When the

charms list opens, click Settings, click the Power icon, and then click Sleep.

To exit Sleep, briefly press the power button.
When the computer exits Sleep, the power lights turn on and the computer returns to the screen

where you stopped working.

NOTE:

If you have set a password to be required on wakeup, you must enter your Windows

password before the computer will return to the screen.

Enabling and exiting user-initiated Hibernation

You can enable user-initiated Hibernation and change other power settings and timeouts using Power

Options:

1.

From the Start screen, type power options, and then select Power Options.

2.

In the left pane, click Choose what the power button does.

3.

Click Change Settings that are currently unavailable.

4.

In the When I press the power button area, select Hibernate.

5.

Click Save changes.

To exit Hibernation, briefly press the power button. The power lights turn on and your work returns to

the screen where you stopped working.

NOTE:

If you have set a password to be required on wakeup, you must enter your Windows

password before your work will return to the screen.

Using the power meter and power settings

The power meter is located on the Windows desktop. The power meter allows you to quickly access

power settings and view the remaining battery charge.

To reveal the percentage of remaining battery charge and the current power plan, on the

Windows desktop, point over the power meter icon.

To use Power Options, or to change the power plan, click the power meter icon and select an

item from the list. From the Start screen, you can also type power options, and then select

Power Options.

Different power meter icons indicate whether the computer is running on battery or external power.

The icon also reveals a message if the battery has reached a low or critical battery level.

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