Well, the thing has been well and truly 'soaked' with power after having been left plugged in for weeks, and I continue with the same troubles. It is frustrating because the machine is in great shape, I have a re-celled battery, it has 32MB of ram, and I have an actual use for the unit if I can only get it to work reliably.
The battery is recognized and checks out OK in Emmpathy and Lind utilities. Its little computer seems to be working fine, in short. I have actually gotten the battery to recharge (to 1752 ma) some 5 times since I last posted, but otherwise recharging of the battery simply will not happen. Erratic recharging is not ideal, but the specific problem encountered is that even when charged, and the machine is plugged in, the battery drains down over a period of 5-6 days. So it gets juice but then gets it no more. Works a treat like that for the time being, mind you, either plugged in or running on battery power.
When the battery is empty, however, and the machine is plugged in, I get warnings every 5 mins. or so that the machine is about to shut down for lack of power (which it sometimes does, though mostly the warning goes away). Emmpathy reports that the machine is running on 'Batt Pwr' always, even when plugged in; Intelligent Battery Recondition almost always requests that I plug the machine in rather than that I insert a battery, even when it is already plugged in and there is no battery inserted, though occasionally IBR will do what it is meant to do and test/recharge the battery (hence 3 of those 5 recharges - the other two happened normally when the gods smiled).
My theory for the present is that either the power supply is not supplying adequate power (though I haven't the equipment to verify that theory), or that there continues to be the usual problems with the power manager software due to the backup battery being defunct (as Equill has so often stated, if the battery will not charge properly, the backup battery can hardly do so, either, QED).
Theories as to the most likely culprit welcome. Power manager or those capacitors in the PS?
The battery is recognized and checks out OK in Emmpathy and Lind utilities. Its little computer seems to be working fine, in short. I have actually gotten the battery to recharge (to 1752 ma) some 5 times since I last posted, but otherwise recharging of the battery simply will not happen. Erratic recharging is not ideal, but the specific problem encountered is that even when charged, and the machine is plugged in, the battery drains down over a period of 5-6 days. So it gets juice but then gets it no more. Works a treat like that for the time being, mind you, either plugged in or running on battery power.
When the battery is empty, however, and the machine is plugged in, I get warnings every 5 mins. or so that the machine is about to shut down for lack of power (which it sometimes does, though mostly the warning goes away). Emmpathy reports that the machine is running on 'Batt Pwr' always, even when plugged in; Intelligent Battery Recondition almost always requests that I plug the machine in rather than that I insert a battery, even when it is already plugged in and there is no battery inserted, though occasionally IBR will do what it is meant to do and test/recharge the battery (hence 3 of those 5 recharges - the other two happened normally when the gods smiled).
My theory for the present is that either the power supply is not supplying adequate power (though I haven't the equipment to verify that theory), or that there continues to be the usual problems with the power manager software due to the backup battery being defunct (as Equill has so often stated, if the battery will not charge properly, the backup battery can hardly do so, either, QED).
Theories as to the most likely culprit welcome. Power manager or those capacitors in the PS?