At 9:25 AM -0700 10/13/01, Germ wrote:
>Hi, I am having some problems with the DUO 270c I just
>got. It worked fine last night, but this morning I was
>trying to get the battery to work (It was showing a
>full charge, yet it would not run when I tried it
>without the AC adapter), when suddenly it stopped
>booting into Mac OS. Now all it does is start-up, show
>that nice smiling mac, and then the screen blinks,
>comes back on and displays a flashing question mark
>and the evil floppy disk. I am clueless of what to do.
>Since Duo's don't have a floppy drive, I don't know
>how to get into Mac OS and look around. Since I can't
>seem to log-in through chooser from my other
>powerbook, I can't get inside either. I would really
>appreciate any hints or guesses. Thanks!
It sounds as if the battery is NG. You need to push the little
button on the back with no power on to reset the power manager.
Paul
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