Hi Blake, It's also very possible that the PRAM battery attached to the motherboard inside the Mac is totally dead. I've seen a dead PRAM battery render PowerBooks unable to start at all.
A quick Google search shows that there are still a few places online selling them, though I couldn't personally vouch for the quality of any such vendor... but here's an example: http://www.yourmacstore.com/shop/shopdisplayproducts.asp?id=192&cat=PRAM+battery I hope that helps. David > > Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:47:05 -0500 > From: Blake Hanes <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [DuoList] Duo230 is really dead. why? > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hey all! I've got two duo's, a 2300 and a 230. The 2300 is not able to run > off the battery, and I don't like using it. but my 230 is awesome, and I'd > like to continue using it! > > Here is my problem: > > When I got it, it would turn on and run perfectly fine! after a while, when > it was on the battery, it would just start randomly going to sleep. the next > stage of failure was that while on AC power, when booted it would get done > loading the OS, and then promptly go to sleep. It then degenerated into only > running in the DuoDock. It now won't do any of these things, and just plain > refuses to start, and ideas? > > Thanks, > Blake.
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