questions-- if my PRAM battery is dead on my PB duo 2300 but the A/C cord is good and the slip-in batteries are good, [according to the LED lights on the battery charger when I plug it in to do recharging]...
A)will the PB light up on powerup, just from the current coming in from the wall or the fully charged big battery? will the dead PRAM be bypassed, despite its discharge and the current reach the insides and give it startup power? B) can the discharged PRAM battery recharge itself from current coming in via the cord or big battery, say, if left overnight 24 hours? 48 hours? C) can it recharge itself at all? with weak reserve? with zero reserve? if it can recharge itself from either source, how long should that take it, if left undisturbed to do so? D)if i don't know which source the power manager is set to pull current from, will a PRAM battery pull less recharge from a big battery, than from the wall cord, overnight? If leaving it set on one of the power manager settings overnight to recharge doesn't have an effect, shouldn't I set the power manager to the other setting and leave it to recharge from the other source for one more night? E) if the chime is embedded in the ROM but my speaker is shot, I wouldn't hear it, right? how about if my speaker is good but the internal volume was set all the way down? without PRAM, wouldn't that volume setting revert to some generic setting, probably audible, once current reached the circuitry? F) would it do any damage to attach a blank hard drive that I'm going to install in this thing anyway[, if i can ever get it to power on and start up], if I did so for no other reason than to be able to hear the drive spin up, to hear if power is reaching the circuitry? if the startup chime isn't audible and the screen doesn't light? I figure this is a lot like finding a boombox and figuring out whether the bateries are shot, the cord is shot, or there's something else wrong with it inside. janet -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at <http://roadtools.com>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
