Re: Narcoleptic 520c Won't Spin Down

2002-06-13 Thread Hardy Menagh
To recap: On Tue, Jun 11, 2002, 9:49am (EDT-3), <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Harbourmaster) had this to say about my sleepy but drive-active 520c: === This sounds to me like a Power Manager problem. Try restarting the book and hold down the command-option-P-R keys to reset the PRAM. Hold the keys down

Re: Narcoleptic 520c Won't Spin Down

2002-06-12 Thread Hardy Menagh
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002, 9:49am (EDT-3), <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Harbourmaster) insightfully replied: This sounds to me like a Power Manager problem. Try restarting the book and hold down the command-option-P-R keys to reset the PRAM. Hold the keys down and make them chime at least_10_ times be

Re: Narcoleptic 520c Won't Spin Down

2002-06-11 Thread Hardy Menagh
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002, 11:19pm, Donna Hood Pointer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> kindly responded: === I have a 520. I don't think the behavior you describe is "sleep", but rather screen dimming. As I recall, this is a battery saving feature. It is not necessary to have the screen at full brightness while i

Narcoleptic 520c Won't Spin Down

2002-06-10 Thread Hardy Menagh
This stock but beat up eBay "Parts" 520c has 12MB RAM and is running OS 7.1.2 on a 170 MB Apple IBM drive. I use it mostly as a test bed & conditioner for RAM & batteries but also word processing. It has a nasty habit of going to sleep any time it feels like it but mostly when opening things. Op