How a $70 Conquest Became A Free Conquest

[bibilit]

the green indicator light does not remain lit when starting up the unit

I can be wrong, as i have not booted my Wallstreet for a long period, but if i can remember the green indicator is only lit when the powerbook is on "sleep" status.(it's a sleep indicator indeed)

As for the battery, there is no indicator, except for the row of lights on the side of the battery.(four units)

My Wallstreet has the brightness trouble under 10.2, never had under Mac Os 9.2.

it shuts itself off after a couple of minutes

Can the G4 board be in fault ? (becoming hot and just shutting itself after a couple of minutes)

Concerning the HD, i agree with that

I suggest reinstalling OS 9 from CD to the HD while it is in the Wallstreet.

Last but not least, did you try to reset the Wallstreet (Shift-fn-Control-Power button) ?

[theos911]

I can be wrong, as i have not booted my Wallstreet for a long period, but if i can remember the green indicator is only lit when the powerbook is on "sleep" status.(it's a sleep indicator indeed)

You are correct. The light blinks during sleep and is off otherwise.

Can the G4 board be in fault ? (becoming hot and just shutting itself after a couple of minutes)

My G4 upgrade, the same one he has (the one I got from JDW) produces a lot of heat, but it doesn't affect the CPU. The heat gets the RAM so hot it starts getting memory errors and they eventually err on an OS occupied part of RAM and the system freezes.

[Concorde1993]

(it's a sleep indicator indeed)

Thanks for the clarification, bibilit. I've never owned a PB G3 laptop before, thus I had assumed that the green indicator lamp referred to the unit being powered up, and not in hibernation mode. I have a green power indicator lamp on my Thinkpad laptops, which remain on when the computer is running. Some Thinkpad models have a crescent-shaped moon indicator that lights up when the computer is in hibernation mode. It's unfortunate that the PBs didn't adopt a similar feature.

My G4 upgrade, the same one he has (the one I got from JDW) produces a lot of heat, but it doesn't affect the CPU.

I can confirm that the Sonnet G4 card does generate quite a bit of heat in a brief amount of time, but I haven't had the computer running to the extent where the RAM modules start to overheat (interesting to note anyway).

As stated earlier, Bunsen suggested checking the PRAM battery, as that may be the cause of the intermittent boot issues. I did some searching around on Google after returning from work, and it appears that if the battery is dead, the computer will generate the same symptoms that I've documented in this thread. I've provided one link just as a reference: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/34 ... 0&tstart=0

As a result, I'm going to remove the PRAM battery, and place in the 20GB drive that came with the unit. If it can boot without the presence of a PRAM battery, then this PB does have some hope after all. If not, I'll have to purchase a new PRAM battery from the 'Bay, and go from there.