[Duo2400] Re: Duo 280c - Also won't start

[Lela Tong]

Hi Mad Dog,

I took the battery out and the Duo came on... thanks!  

The little floppy with the question mark appeared -- so, I booted
with the Disk Tools.  At first, the HD did not appear -- but at the
2nd boot, the HD did appear and after running a check, the Disk
First Aid verified everything as being okay.

Now, the machine starts okay.

Would you know what happened?  

I may be travelling again and putting the Duo in storage -- would it
be best to store the Duo with or without the battery?  The battery
has been dead for awhile -- an interesting thing is when I try to
recondition it, the machine just shuts down. 

I'd appreciate any great ideas and info!

Best

Lela



--- Tom and Lisa P <gionpeters at comcast.net> wrote:
> >Hi Mad Dog,
> >
> >When in storage, the battery was taken out and stored separately.
> >But when I took it out of storage and tried to start it, I put
> the
> >battery back in.
> >
> >Why?  Would it help to take the battery out? 
> >
> >The battery is dead, methinks.
> >
> >I tried holding the reset button for 45 seconds -- the light
> comes
> >on but nothing else does.
> >
> >Any ideas?
> >
> >Lela
> 
> Does it boot when the battery is out of the Duo ?  Sometimes Duo 
> batts can go bad enough to prevent booting.
> 
> Mad Dog
> 
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