on 9/19/00 9:27 AM, Dan Williams-Capone at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> 230 had low battery last night.  had put it to sleep.  moved over to an outlet
> and plugged it in.  it had shut itself down.  when i tried to power it up
> (pressing the button by the screen above the keyboard) nothing happened.
> tried the three finger method--nothing.  then tried resetting the power
> manager.  it made the sort of high pitched sound it makes, but still nothing
> would work to turn it on.  but evrer so often (a couple of times a minute) it
> would make a real short high pitched sound like the power manager was doing
> something and by the time i gave up (5 or 10 minutes or so) the upper right
> quadrant of the bottom of the case was so hot it could have burned you.  (the
> area below the power manger reset button and modem/ram cards).
> 

In general, I've found that a high-pitched sound is made by a transformer or
other power component that is going or has gone bad.  (Although most
transformers have a hum to some extent.)  I hope that's not it, but what you
describe is not too encouraging.

- Eric.


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