Brian Mahoney wrote:
My powerbook duo 230 has been useless since I got it last summer, bad
keyboard, freezing after boot etc. Tried it again yesterday and it
wouldn't boot at all. Bright idea this morning involved taking the
battery out, batteries are long dead anyway. It booted up, no problem,
and hasn't seized up yet.
Would a dead battery actually negatively affect the computer so that
it wouldn't run at all or freeze up after booting? Probably more the
power manager or something but I'm wondering if some of the 'dead' pbs
out there might be resurrected by removing the battery? I'll play
around with this one today but it's never lasted more than a minute
without freezing up. If this is old news, just ignore me, but I
haven't seen this quick fix before.
BM
OK so it went for a couple of hours then the black bomb came up, "sorry,
a system error occurred. "Finder" floating point coprocessor not installed"
which sounds rather more serious than a dead battery. Well, at least it
boots again. If anyone has any suggestions on the floating point error,
that's cool, but not a huge deal. I suspect something on the board is
fried.
BM
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