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- Lithium ion Battery
Replacing the Battery
With the purchase of an additional battery, you can have a fully charged spare to swap with one that is not
charged. There are two ways to swap batteries, cold-swapping and hot-swapping:
Cold-swapping Batteries
To cold-swap batteries in your battery bay follow these easy steps:
1
Have a charged battery ready to install.
2
Shut down your notebook and disconnect the AC adapter.
3
Orient your system as shown in Figure 26.
4
Push the spring-loaded left battery latch away from the battery and hold it in place.
5
Push the right battery latch to the left, exposing the bright orange sticker; this will unlock the battery.
6
Lift the battery out of the battery bay at the battery lift point adjacent to the bright orange sticker.
7
Align a new battery into the bay, and press it down so that the latch clicks into place.
8
Push the right battery latch to the right.
9
Plug in the AC adapter and turn the power on.
Hot-swapping Batteries
To hot-swap batteries in your battery bay follow these easy steps:
1
Plug an AC Adapter into the system and connect it to a power outlet.
B
E
SURE
TO
PLUG
IN
AN
AC A
DAPTER
PRIOR
TO
REMOVING
THE
BATTERY
.
T
HERE
IS
NO
BRIDGE
BATTERY
PRESENT
TO
SUPPORT
THE
SYSTEM
WHILE
THE
BATTERY
IS
BEING
REPLACED
. I
F
YOU
DO
NOT
USE
AN
AC A
DAPTER
YOU
WILL
LOSE
ANY
UNSAVED
FILES
.
