<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi Blake,</div><div><br></div><div>It's also very possible that the PRAM battery attached to the motherboard inside the Mac is totally dead. I've seen a dead PRAM battery render PowerBooks unable to start at all.</div><div><br></div><div>A quick Google search shows that there are still a few places online selling them, though I couldn't personally vouch for the quality of any such vendor... but here's an example:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.yourmacstore.com/shop/shopdisplayproducts.asp?id=192&cat=PRAM+battery">http://www.yourmacstore.com/shop/shopdisplayproducts.asp?id=192&cat=PRAM+battery</a></div><div><br></div><div>I hope that helps.</div><div>David</div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font>Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:47:05 -0500<br>From: Blake Hanes <<a href="mailto:kissmyash933@gmail.com">kissmyash933@gmail.com</a>><br>To: <a href="mailto:duolist@listserver.themacintoshguy.com">duolist@listserver.themacintoshguy.com</a><br>Subject: [DuoList] Duo230 is really dead. why?<br>Message-ID:<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><<a href="mailto:AANLkTi=LkQK8q85ExiFMN+GJ9dt0mTPh07eaURTUGCZg@mail.gmail.com">AANLkTi=LkQK8q85ExiFMN+GJ9dt0mTPh07eaURTUGCZg@mail.gmail.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>Hey all! I've got two duo's, a 2300 and a 230. The 2300 is not able to run<br>off the battery, and I don't like using it. but my 230 is awesome, and I'd<br>like to continue using it!<br><br>Here is my problem:<br><br>When I got it, it would turn on and run perfectly fine! after a while, when<br>it was on the battery, it would just start randomly going to sleep. the next<br>stage of failure was that while on AC power, when booted it would get done<br>loading the OS, and then promptly go to sleep. It then degenerated into only<br>running in the DuoDock. It now won't do any of these things, and just plain<br>refuses to start, and ideas?<br><br>Thanks,<br>Blake.<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>