Mostly out of curiosity, I recently bought myself a PB 5300CS. After
upgrading the OS to 8.1, the little machine runs better...no crashing,
hangups, etc. However I still have some work to do.
The PRAM battery is completely dead, and I'm wondering if that might be
causing some strange behavior I'm seeing. The laptop works ok on AC
power, but when running on battery it gets flaky. Just a few minutes
ago I was working on it on battery power, the monitor started to flicker
a little...I moved the panel a little to check for a bad connection and
the computer shut off. It took quite a bit of tinkering with the reset
button and Power on button to ever get it to come back up. I have also
noticed that when I start it up from battery power, sometimes it has to
be reset to start instead of just pressing the power button. I have
reset the power manager more than once and zapped the pram.
Is the behavior I am mentioning possibly all related to the dead PRAM
battery?
Also, does anyone know of a source of speed doubler that would run with
OS8? It was originally on the machine but is for OS 7.5.2. It won't
work with OS8, partially because I don't have the install disk, and the
version is 2 anyway which is not compatible with OS 8.
I don't understand why when a company discontinues a product they can't
release it for download or as public domain instead of just doing away
with it and all support for it.
Thanks,
Jim Williams
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