At 5:51 PM -0700 8/3/99, Marc Sira wrote:
>As of last weekend, my 2400 appears to be in serious straits. The sleep LED is
>lit steady green as per the manual - hitting the reset switch produces a
>typical power-on >click< from the speaker, then nothing - no chime, no boot.
>From this description I'm not sure if you're doing it correctly -- you need
to hold the reset switch down for 20 seconds or more, then let go. (This
is a pain. I always mess up and let go too early because of how hard it is
to hold the switch down.)
The PowerBook Power Manager is notoriously flaky, and the 2400 is one of
the worst models. You often have to just keep trying the reset procedure
until finally it works. (I've experienced this before.) Obviously there
are limits of sanity as to how many times to try, but I've had it take 20
tries to get one going.
Tim Seufert
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