on 15/10/00 16:37, Eric L. Strobel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> on 10/14/00 2:29 AM, Laurent Daudelin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> OK, it seems that now that I've fixed my battery problem, I'm plagued by
>> another one.
>>
>> I'm running 8.1 on my Duo 280c. For some reason, the hard disk is seen as
>> being off, even if it's on. Both the Apple control strip and the "Essential
>> PowerBook Strip" reports "hard disk is off", while it's spinning. I
>> shutdown. waited a few minutes, and restarted. Same thing, right after the
>> Finder loads. I tried rebooting with the 8.1 base set of extension, same
>> problem.
>>
>> I also noticed earlier this evening that after about 5 minutes *after* the
>> screen is dimmed, that the Duo freezes. I have to force quit the Finder to
>> regain the cursor and the computer starts working. It seems that from then
>> on, every action on the screen, menu selection, windows opening, etc. is
>> kind of sluggish. With only 24MB of RAM, I also closely monitor the amount
>> of free RAM, and after the force quit, it seems that a few MB are wasted.
>>
>> Does anybody ever experience something like this?
>>
>> As always, thanks in advance!
>>
>> -Laurent.
>>
>
> It's probably just asleep. Did you try just striking, say, the SHIFT key
> and waiting a second or two to see if it wakes up? Sounds like your
> settings are for processor cycling, sleep the HD immediately, etc. I'd
> check those before worrying about anything else.
Hi Eric!
Well, so far, all my testing really point to the EN/SC extension and some
conflict with the SCSI bus.
After 5 minutes, the screen will first dim. Then, about 5 minutes later, the
computer freezes. I know that the screen dims after 5 minutes. Checking the
time on the system clock did reveal that 5 minutes later, something is
happening and causes the computer to freeze. The cursor is invisible. If I
move the trackball, the screen undims, but the computer is still frozen.
Then, if I force quit the Finder, the cursor re-appears and the computer
comes to life. But at that point, the menus when clicked, are displayed very
slowly. There is some sluggishness that I can identify. And I already
mentioned that whenever I switch AppleTalk to "Alternate Ethernet", the hard
disk is wrongly reported by 2 control strips as being off, while it's
definitely not off, I can easily hear it spinning. So, that EN/SC extension
is doing something on the SCSI bus. BTW, I've tried "Alternate Ethernet"
with processor cycling ON and OFF, and it doesn't make any difference. I
thought that 5 minutes after the screen was dimmed, the processor was maybe
slowed down, but if it's the case, then it doesn't seem to matter with my
problem, as it has happened when processor cycling was off.
I'm still investigating this, though, as it's really annoying to have to
switch AppleTalk every time I'm done with a file transfer or an Ethernet
access, or I will find the computer frozen.
-Laurent.
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