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Battery Slice
Features
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Setting Up Your Battery Slice
WARNING: The AC adapter works with electrical outlets worldwide. However,
power connectors and power strips vary among countries. Using an incompatible
cable or improperly connecting the cable to the power strip or electrical outlet may
cause fire or damage the equipmentt.
November 2008
CAUTION: Always use the Dell AC adapter that came with your Tablet-PC. If you use
any other commercially available AC adapter—or the AC adapter from earlier models
of Dell computers—you may damage the battery slice or the Tablet-PC.
CAUTION: Use the Latitude™ XT2 battery slice with your Latitude XT2 only. If you use
a battery slice from other models of Dell computers you may damage the battery slice
or the Tablet-PC.
CAUTION: When you disconnect the Dell AC adapter cable from the Tablet-PC, grasp
the connector, not the cable itself, and pull firmly but gently to avoid damaging the
cable. When you wrap the AC adapter cable, ensure that you follow the angle of the
connector on the AC adapter to avoid damaging the cable.
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Connect the AC adapter to the AC adapter connector on your Tablet-PC and
to an electrical outlet.
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Before you dock or undock your Tablet-PC from the battery slice, save and
close any open files, and exit any open programs.
3
Before you undock your Tablet-PC, set your Tablet-PC power management
settings so that the Tablet-PC does not enter sleep, standby, or hibernate
mode when you close (lower) the display:
Windows Vista
®
a
Click
Start →
Control Panel→ Mobile PC→ Power Options
Change what closing the lid does
b
Under the
Windows
a
Click
Options
b
Under the
Do nothing
When I close the lid
®
XP
Start→ Control Panel→ Performance and Maintenance→ Power
→
Advanced
.
When I close the lid of my portable computer
.
.
drop-down menu, select
→
Do nothing.
, select
Docking Your Tablet-PC to the Battery Slice
NOTE: After docking the Tablet-PC to the battery slice, the Tablet-PC AC adapter will
also charge the battery slice.
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Follow the procedures in "Setting Up Your Battery Slice" on page 1.
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Align the back of the Tablet-PC with the back of the battery slice, and lower
the front of the Tablet-PC onto the
battery slice
.
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Press the Tablet-PC onto the
battery slice
until you feel a click and the
Tablet-PC is firmly seated.
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Turn on the Tablet-PC.
The operating system recognizes the
battery slice
.
Undocking Your Tablet-PC From the Battery Slice
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Follow the procedures in "Setting Up Your Battery Slice" on page 1.
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Pull the Tablet-PC release lever (see "Features" on page 1 for more
information) to release the Tablet-PC from the battery slice.
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release lever
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Lift the back of the Tablet-PC up and slide the Tablet-PC out towards the
back of the battery slice.
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Charging Your Battery Slice
You can recharge your battery slice independent of the Tablet-PC using the
AC adapter that shipped with your Tablet-PC. Your battery slice will also
recharge whenever it is docked to the Tablet-PC and the Tablet-PC is attached
to the electrical outlet using the AC adapter.
Battery-Slice Power-Status LED Codes
Your battery slice includes a power status LED that can indicate the following
states:
LED CodesStatus
Blinking amber, off, blue, off,
amber, off, blue, off
Blinking amber, off, amber, off,
amber, off, amber, off, long blue,
long off
Blinking amber, off, amber, off,
amber, off, amber, off
LED offBattery in full charge mode with
Steady blue lightBattery in charge mode with AC adapter
You are trying to use an unsupported,
non-Dell AC adapter to power your
tablet-PC.
Temporary battery failure with AC
adapter present.
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