Turning the omnibook on and off – HP OmniBook 5500 Notebook PC User Manual

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Floppy disk

This icon appears when the OmniBook
is reading or writing to the floppy disk
drive.

Hard disk

This icon appears when the OmniBook
is reading or writing to drive C.

PC card

This icon appears when you insert PC
cards into the card slots. The two
cards identify when one or two of the
slots are occupied.

Power off

This icon appears when the OmniBook
is turned off; the “bookmark” icon
reminds you that the state of the
computer has been saved.

To check power status

The left icons indicate power conditions—ac adapter use, battery status, charging
status.

ac power

This icon appears when the ac adapter
is plugged in.

Battery status

The shading of the battery symbol
shows the approximate charge level of
the battery relative to a full charge.

Battery
charging

The lightning bolt symbol appears
when the battery is charging. The
battery symbol blinks when the battery
is low.

Turning the OmniBook On and Off

The OmniBook has several On/Off modes that save power when the ac adapter isn’t
connected. The most obvious of these is automatic shutdown—when your
OmniBook has been idle for 3 minutes with no ac power, it turns itself off
automatically.

In this section you’ll learn how to:

Turn off the OmniBook (Instant On mode).

Turn off the OmniBook (Save-To-Disk mode).

Shut down the OmniBook.

To turn off the OmniBook (Instant On mode)

Use Instant On to temporarily turn off the OmniBook when you’re away from it for
short periods. In this mode, the OmniBook display turns off, but the computer saves
the state of the computer in memory, exactly where you were working.

Press the blue On/Off button.

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