um.... smack forhead?
I got a rather late idea just now to get out my 150. It's funny.... I thought I only had one battery... I know when I found the 150 it had the sliding clip for the battery covering the battery compartment, but sliding it open revealed that there wasn't a battery atatched to it.
Mysteriously when I turned it on, the battery meter on the control strip showed it was charged. There was a battery in it... I'm guessing the 180c came with two of them and I put one in the 150 and totally forgot about it...
Anyway I took the battery out and put the one from the 180c in and turned the 150 back on. The battery charge meter in the control strip didn't even show up, as if there was no battery at all.
I then tried putting the other battery in the 180c and pushed the reset buttton on back and got a "Bong!"
Apparently it's possible for a bad main battery to make a computer not work.
On other notes. I'm glad I installed the video cable when I had it open to double check all the connections before putting it back together to try leaving it plugged in. Now I don't have to dread doing it now that I've got the computer to run.. And the new monitor cable works awsome. No more buggered video.
I got a rather late idea just now to get out my 150. It's funny.... I thought I only had one battery... I know when I found the 150 it had the sliding clip for the battery covering the battery compartment, but sliding it open revealed that there wasn't a battery atatched to it.
Mysteriously when I turned it on, the battery meter on the control strip showed it was charged. There was a battery in it... I'm guessing the 180c came with two of them and I put one in the 150 and totally forgot about it...
Anyway I took the battery out and put the one from the 180c in and turned the 150 back on. The battery charge meter in the control strip didn't even show up, as if there was no battery at all.
I then tried putting the other battery in the 180c and pushed the reset buttton on back and got a "Bong!"
Apparently it's possible for a bad main battery to make a computer not work.
On other notes. I'm glad I installed the video cable when I had it open to double check all the connections before putting it back together to try leaving it plugged in. Now I don't have to dread doing it now that I've got the computer to run.. And the new monitor cable works awsome. No more buggered video.