Re: Wallstreet 1 - no battery indication, Open Firmware

2004-06-22 Thread Mike Turner 
On 21/6/04 21:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:

Try and *shut down* the machine before you boot up into OF. For some
reason that gave me better results before.

Have been following this thread with interest as I have a WallStreet II 
and a recent, suddenly dead battery (no lights at all), that Battery 
Reset cannot revive. When you insert the battery the WallStreet 
recognises it as a battery for about a minute, then decides it can't 
charge it and the menu bar and Mac OS 9 Control Strip indicator changes 
to no battery installed. I could not boot into OF with a restart, 
although I remember being in OF once in the distant past.

Following Mikael's post about shutting down first, I tried it and Open 
Firmware came up first try :-) Unfortunately no change in my dead battery 
(yet). Maybe it is really dead. Perhaps it is due to the fact I left the 
computer unpowered for 3 months...

Mike Turner

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Re: Wallstreet 1 - no battery indication, Open Firmware note

2004-06-21 Thread Mikael Byström 
Tracy, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:

I have to agree with previous posters that getting into Open Firmware 
on a Wallstreet 1 is very difficult. I *can* get it to happen, but I 
have to try many times. It works maybe once out of every dozen 
attempts. There must be a very small window of time when they keys need 
to be pressed. It seems to be just after the startup sound begins (not 
before) and not more than, say, a half second after it starts. At least 
that is my best guess, and even then it is hit or miss.

Try and *shut down* the machine before you boot up into OF. For some
reason that gave me better results before.


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