Re: WS repair follow-up
I just got 3 dead batteries from ebay ( no light ) and revive them with VST charger , they old 3 hours each I just got a good deal Just a quick note to say thanks to all on the list who responded to my WallStreet power/sound board replacement question. I have now replaced the board, and the sound is now back and the PowerBook attempts to charge the battery! Not bad, considering the power/sound board only cost me five pounds (about 4 US dollars). I think the battery has been discharged to the point of no return, though. Now when the battery is inserted, the second LED on the battery comes on and then goes off. I have tried the battery reset application, and also starting up in both OS9 and OSX but this didn't make any difference. The battery didn't hold much charge, anyway, so it looks like I will need to source a new one. I haven't tried disconnecting the power for that long, but the PRAM settings (date and time, etc) are no longer reset, which is good. The process was easier than I thought, and I found the only fiddly bit was reattaching the display cables. Both the PowerBook G3 pdf file but particularly the PowerBooktech.com website were useful (thanks to Shawn Harley for that link). Mark -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- 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/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: WS repair follow-up
On Saturday 09 August 2003 05:36 pm, Shawn Harley wrote: Mark, My Wallstreet sat unused for a long period of time, and a good battery would no longer take a charge or show up in the control strip(OS 9). I zapped PRAM, reset Power Manager, and left bad battery in Wallstreet, shut down and plugged in to AC for a few days undisturbed. Battery now works fine. Worth a try. Second that. If you plug your Wallstreet in for at least overnight, more is better, often you can revive a tired battery. The backup battery requires at least overnight charging to kickstart, and I have heard that 48 hours plugged in time without use is optimum for reviving the backup battery. Main battery paradoxically requires less charging time. You have to also unlearn habits you might have learned with NiCad and NiMH batteries...a LiIon battery can be successfully topped off without depleting it completely. In fact, letting a LiIon battery completely discharge can fatally damage it. At least, this is what I have heard... -.\\-H- -- Michelle Klein-Hass Box 2273, Van Nuys, CA 91404-2273 Brought to you by Linux, KDE and KMail...try it, you'll like it! -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- 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/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: WS repair follow-up
Mark, My Wallstreet sat unused for a long period of time, and a good battery would no longer take a charge or show up in the control strip(OS 9). I zapped PRAM, reset Power Manager, and left bad battery in Wallstreet, shut down and plugged in to AC for a few days undisturbed. Battery now works fine. Worth a try. Shawn P.S. - Where did you find the ac/sound card for $4? On Saturday, August 9, 2003, at 01:32 PM, Mark Ingle wrote: Just a quick note to say thanks to all on the list who responded to my WallStreet power/sound board replacement question. I have now replaced the board, and the sound is now back and the PowerBook attempts to charge the battery! Not bad, considering the power/sound board only cost me five pounds (about 4 US dollars). I think the battery has been discharged to the point of no return, though. Now when the battery is inserted, the second LED on the battery comes on and then goes off. I have tried the battery reset application, and also starting up in both OS9 and OSX but this didn't make any difference. The battery didn't hold much charge, anyway, so it looks like I will need to source a new one. I haven't tried disconnecting the power for that long, but the PRAM settings (date and time, etc) are no longer reset, which is good. The process was easier than I thought, and I found the only fiddly bit was reattaching the display cables. Both the PowerBook G3 pdf file but particularly the PowerBooktech.com website were useful (thanks to Shawn Harley for that link). Mark -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- 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/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com --- -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- 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/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
WS repair follow-up
Just a quick note to say thanks to all on the list who responded to my WallStreet power/sound board replacement question. I have now replaced the board, and the sound is now back and the PowerBook attempts to charge the battery! Not bad, considering the power/sound board only cost me five pounds (about 4 US dollars). I think the battery has been discharged to the point of no return, though. Now when the battery is inserted, the second LED on the battery comes on and then goes off. I have tried the battery reset application, and also starting up in both OS9 and OSX but this didn't make any difference. The battery didn't hold much charge, anyway, so it looks like I will need to source a new one. I haven't tried disconnecting the power for that long, but the PRAM settings (date and time, etc) are no longer reset, which is good. The process was easier than I thought, and I found the only fiddly bit was reattaching the display cables. Both the PowerBook G3 pdf file but particularly the PowerBooktech.com website were useful (thanks to Shawn Harley for that link). Mark -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- 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/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
