Simon at Sentient Technologies on 4/3/01 8:37 AM wrote:
> Basically what happened is that the Duo stopped working
> unless it was in the Duo Dock (Plus). Ejected and running
> on battery it would play the startup sound, light the
> screen, but then immediately shut itself off.
>
> I have one Type-2 battery and two Type-3 batteries for it,
> but none of them will power it out of the Dock for more
> than a few seconds now. It also will not run while directly
> plugged into a power adapter.
>
> Besides swapping the three batteries in the Duo to charge
> them in the Dock, I've also charged them separately in both
> the standard Apple charger and in another one which does a
> deep discharge first. And in addition to the standard Apple
> power adapter I also have a mini adapter made by Battery
> Technology, but that won't make it work out of the Dock
> either.
>
> In the Dock the Duo works perfectly. No software or
> hardware problems, all external connections work just fine.
> But no matter what I try, including the standard PRAM
> zapping and Power Manager resetting, nothing seems to have
> any effect on the problem at all.
>
> So right now I have a perfectly wonderful desktop computer.
> But I sure would like to be able to eject it and use it out
> of the Dock again someday.
Do you know if the batteries are good?
It sounds like they are so far gone that when you boot up, the power manger
inside the Duo is overworked. It's job is to provide power to the Duo so
that it can run. It also has to provide power to the battery to charge it.
If the battery is to far gone it puts such a load on the power manager that
there isn't enough juice left for the Duo itself to continue powering up.
Hence it goes dark.
Try removing the battery as Suzy had suggested and see what happens.
Hopefully you will be able to boot without any trouble. If you insert a
battery after you finish booting up and it dies, it's definitely a bad
battery. Don't continue trying to use it as it will only put undue stress on
the power manager.
-makmac
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