I suspect your problem is your battery, you said it was fully discharged; the Pismo will do strange things with a bad battery. If it's fully discharged and going to sleep you may also be discharging the PRAM battery to a point where it won't support sleep mode.
Joe Ellis On 11/6/02 8:43 PM, "Bonnie Mellott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One more update, now it's not even sleeping, it's just > off. Turning it back on seems hopeless now. If it > doesn't work by the morning, I guess I will have it > looked at by someone at a repair place. Nothing I > find on the web is helping me find any kind of > solution. > > --- George Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Wednesday, Nov 6, 2002, at 20:32 US/Eastern, >> George Gunderson wrote: >> >>> >>> On Wednesday, Nov 6, 2002, at 19:23 US/Eastern, >> Bonnie Mellott wrote: >>>> >>>> Anyway, there's more. I figure it was about 1:30 >> when >>>> I got it to turn on. I worked on it for a couple >>>> hours, left for a couple hours, and came back and >>>> worked some more. It's 7:30 now. A few minutes >> ago, >>>> I was using the pismo and it just went to sleep >> out of >>>> the blue. It refuses to wake up, restart or turn >> off. >>>> It is still plugged into the wall. By the way, >> my >>>> battery is no good at all anymore. >>>> >>> I can add that my Pismo has died like that >> overnight a couple of >>> times, while there was still charge in the >> battery. I woke up in the >>> morning, tried to wake up my Pismo and it was out >> for the count. >>> Pressing the power button did start it up properly >> and without >>> argument. Startup did take a long time, hanging >> on the startup screen >>> with the little circle moving. Is that the hard >> disk being >>> checked/repaired from shutting down spontaneously? >>> >> Oops...forgot to say that the drive is a 40gig... >> -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:G-Books@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:G-Books-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:G-Books-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
