Hi,
I've been a lurker on the list for a long time now, and I've been
impressed at the know-how y'all have exhibited. Now I need your
collective wisdom.
I have a Duo 280c that is having the strangest power problem.
After sitting idle a few months, it gave me the Green Light of Death.
I reset the power manager (hoping for a quick fix), then it gave me
death chimes.
I was sure nothing had happened to the hardware while it was sitting
in its case on the shelf, so I removed the battery, reset the power
manager again, and reinserted the battery and it booted up but before
it loaded the extensions it shut off. No green light, just off.
I removed the battery and booted it under AC power. It started up
like a champ. I ran a number of diagnostics (like nortons, etc) and
they came back clean. I shut down and restarted under AC power
multiple times. It seemed normal. Then I put the battery in while it
was running under AC power...
as soon as the menubar showed the battery was it, the duo shut itself
off. No drive noise, no green light, nuthin'.
I then tried to boot with the battery in and it shut off before
loading extensions. I removed the battery and it starts fine.
All these things seem to point to the battery as the culprit, but I
don't understand how the battery could produce the errors, death
chimes, etc.
My question: is it really just the battery? or am I missing
something? could it be another hardware failure on the motherboard?
If I had another battery to test it, I would.
Has anyone had this type of problem before?
Thanks,
Nathan Pomeroy
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"I will not presume to probe the recesses of the Eskimo psyche, gentlemen."
-Cecil Adams, _The_Straight_Dope_
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