>I'll try what you suggest. My Duo has also only the LED in the top of the
>screen casing turning on and off. When I press the reset key on the back,
>about 30 seconds, the light very slowly blinks. Then, after a minute, when I
>depress the reset key, the light turns on solid. It turns off if I press the
>reset key again, or the power key. So, I know there is still something going
>on.
For the record, the Duo is *off* when the green LED is on and lit
solid. When you hit the power switch and the light goes off, it
indicates that the Duo is on and trying to start up (and failing in
this case). The meaning of the solid LED is simply that the power
manager has been completely reset and will be restored the next time
you manage to reboot the Mac OS. This also applies to later non-Duo
Powerbooks, and possibly to the 500 series.
I'm not sure whether a Powerbook can recharge a battery while the
power manager is in that state (solid LED), but it probably can't,
since it lacks the instructions to know how. That's likely the main
reason for having a light that indicates user action is required
(booting the OS).
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