Bob was describing the power problems and he said:
>
> Since the Starmax batteries must be nearing the end of their lives about
now, we all
> either have had a bad battery or are about to.
>
> The symptoms people have reported so far range from no-power to no-video
to
> not-recognizing-disks and so on. In my observation, chasing down each of
those
> possibly bad devices or units can be futile shouldn't be done until the
battery is
> first checked. A bad or low battery corrupts the PRAM and can give us
symptoms all
> over the map.
just to insert my two cents--This happened to me a couple of years ago and
even the local shop didn't know this problem, but we found the info in the
Internet and ordered a new battery--then struggled with the fact that the
battery is *velcroed* to the MOBO (how farmerish.) But the really important
thing we discovered was that the machine needs to have low-level voltage at
all times; it should never be on a power strip or other power source that is
turned off. I had been turning the SM off and then turning the powerstrip
off and the battery died..
Turn off the machine but leave it plugged into an active power source. We
now have all of our machines, PCs too, plugged into UPSes which are never
turned off and we have had no power problems.
Almita, the cybergrannie of Vashon Island
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