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
Would a dead battery actually negatively affect the computer so that it
wouldn't run at all
Yes, I always disconnect the main and if easy, PRAM battery on a non-booter.
or freeze up after booting?
Less convinced of that.
Probably more the power manager or something
I have wondered if the
Yes, dead battery (there are many definition on what dead is..., but for
batteries this means an internally shorted cell or 2) are usually loading the
AC/DC power supply to a point where the voltage is too low for start-up and
extra current to spin the HD is not there.
Just to illustrate: my
The PRAM battery on one of my PowerBook 3400c's died - at least that's
what it seems like.
Anyway, for some reason, I can't get the battery unplugged from its
connection to the logic board on this machine so I can replace it. The
wires attaching the PRAM batter to the logic board on my other
Hmm, do you mean the plug connecting the PRAM wiring to the wire coming
out of the logic board? I can physically remove the PRAM battery without
a problem, just can't it unplugged...
thanks
doc
Ian Nixon wrote:
The batteries in the 3400c's tended to corrode a lot, and are very
difficult to
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
The battery isn't plugged into the logic board. It's
plugged into the power management board. And there
may also be a connector in the middle of that wire.
--- Doc Holliday [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The PRAM battery on one of my PowerBook
3400c's died - at least that's what it seems like.
The battery isn't plugged into the logic board. It's
plugged into the power management board. And there
may also be a connector in the middle of that wire.
In my experience there is always an extension on the battery cable.
The battery is under the rear bridge, where the 190/5300 was extended
--- Ian Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From the battery at the rear of the machine, the
extension cable does
indeed route battery power to the power manager
board at the very front
of the machine.
So what you're saying is that you can just plug the
battery into the
power manager
