Greetings fellow Listers, Here's what feels like a "silly question" to me, and why I ask it. Is it possible to "overwork" a 5300c?
I ask because last Tuesday the monitor on my G3 died, and I've been using my 5300c as a temporary replacement until I can get a new monitor for the G3. The 5300c is running OS 8.6, has 40 megs of RAM (plus VM is enabled) and the processor is a 603e, 100 MHz. Its INTENDED use, for which it has served beautifully so far, was simply to be able to go outside and write, and, if I go out of town, minimal Internet and that primarily email. I do have full Internet software on it, however -- in addition to my email client, there's AIM, IRC and iCab, all tested and usable. Now, I know this temporary setup with the 5300c is NOT going to run as fast and smooth as my G3/266, OS 9.2.2, 256 megs of RAM, BUT...my poor 5300c seems to be choking to death under the onslaught of the much heavier usage I've been giving it of late (many hours at a time, every day, as compared to a couple hours a day, and not every single day), and I'm wondering if the following observations mean that I AM pushing it too hard: 1. Normally, if I go away from the computer to do something else (this applies to both the 5300c and the G3), I put it in sleep mode. Twice yesterday when I put the 5300c in sleep mode and returned to wake it up, for the first time it wouldn't wake up by my touching a key. The "nerve pinch" restart didn't work either -- I had to actually use the restart button in the back. 2. Today I noticed the battery symbol on "recharge" once, when I haven't taken the 5300c out and used it on battery juice since the night before my G3 monitor died. All other times it's been on full, and the control strip properly indicates all it should, namely: either (a) it's drinking wall juice, (b) it's recharging the battery, or (c) it's drinking battery juice. So what do you all think? As to me, I'm getting sufficiently nervous here -- enough to have just taken my 190 out of its place of safekeeping and check its readiness and maybe do an Appletalk transfer of some stuff, "just in case." ~Yersinia. -- 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! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; 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/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
