[Duo2400] Re: latest installment of the 280c saga

[Tom and Lisa P]

>>The battery you have is very evil-bad.
>
>Evil bad? As in what way? Like, totally, totally drained...to the 
>point that it has become a black hole sucking the life out of my 
>system?

Black Hole - bad.

>>   Try reconditioning it.
>
>This won't work, since every time I put it in my duo the computer dies.
>
>>  If that doesnt work, a Lind Supercharger2 might whip that bad boy 
>>into shape.
>
>I'll go looking for one...though I'm getting increasingly shy of 
>ebay (where I bought this battery).

I know someone on this list who has 3 of them.

>Any thoughts as to how I can resurrect the hard drive in my duo dock 
>that this battery has apparently somehow killed? It's completely 
>disappeared off my desktop. Norton's found it last night, called it 
>damaged and could not repair it. Today, even Norton's can't find it. 
>The OS is having trouble recognising the floppy drive in the dock as 
>well. My next step is to reinstall my system software onto the 280c 
>drive, as I'm theorizing that perhaps the disk drivers have been 
>corrupted.

probably a conicidence the drive went south at the same time.  To 
install, I pop the top off the dock and use a SCSI cable to string up 
a CD Drive and install that way.

>Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>--
>Steve
>sbsharpe at dramex.org
>•

Mad Dog