69www.gateway.comExtending battery lifeChanging power modesYou can use the following power modes to lengthen the life of yournotebook’s battery:■ Standby - while your notebook is in Standby, it switches to a lowpower state where devices, such as the display and drives, turn off.■ Hibernate - (also called save to disk) writes all current memory (RAM)information to the hard drive, then turns your notebook completelyoff. The next time you turn on your notebook, it reads the memoryinformation from the hard drive and opens the programs anddocuments that were open when you activated Hibernate mode.Using power saving modesAlways save your work before using Standby mode. In Standby mode,your notebook reduces or turns off the power to most devices exceptmemory. However, the information in memory is not saved to the harddrive. If power is interrupted, the information is lost.When in Hibernate mode, your notebook saves all memory informationto the hard drive, then turns the power completely off.If your notebook is... ...and you want to... ...thenOn Enter Standby mode Press F N +F3.On Enter Hibernatemode (must beactivated)Click Start, then clickTurn Off Computer. Press and holdS HIFT, then click Hibernate.In Standby orHibernate modeExit Standby orHibernate modePress the power button.
