It actually gets worse. I replaced the HD and hooked it up to a SCSI enclosure that has electrical outlets on the back of it (which I say to distinguish this first part where the enclosure was empty). The power manager still won't reset. It now seems to reset once, chime, then when it comes to reset a second time it shuts down entirely and the (battery) charge light goes on. There's no battery in it but given my experiments with rebuilding its battery that might be ominous. I replaced the power board with an older board with different issues but not the PRAM issue and it was exactly the same.
When I actually put an HD in the enclosure, it went to Sad Mac I think when I tried to reset the PRAM; it just wouldn't boot to the external HD, otherwise - even when I tried to force it to the SCSI ID number. For these trials I removed the RAM card and tried removing/keeping in the ATA drive - neither made a difference (except on uptime with the RAM card).
I have two specifically SD adapters: http://www.amazon.com/Digigear-PCMCIA-adapter-supports-memory/dp/B00MFVG9XO; http://www.ebay.com/itm/261556993009 . I think my laptop has an SD slot. The PRAM etc. issues may not be related to the PCMCIA issues, but there clearly is something that goes beyond just the flash memory.
It doesn't seem to be able to boot from floppy. It starts to boot normally and then on the smiling mac it spits out the floppy and goes back to the flashing disk image. I've tried this with a half dozen disk images now. And with non-system disks it doesn't do that... So is this a ROM problem?
When I actually put an HD in the enclosure, it went to Sad Mac I think when I tried to reset the PRAM; it just wouldn't boot to the external HD, otherwise - even when I tried to force it to the SCSI ID number. For these trials I removed the RAM card and tried removing/keeping in the ATA drive - neither made a difference (except on uptime with the RAM card).
I have two specifically SD adapters: http://www.amazon.com/Digigear-PCMCIA-adapter-supports-memory/dp/B00MFVG9XO; http://www.ebay.com/itm/261556993009 . I think my laptop has an SD slot. The PRAM etc. issues may not be related to the PCMCIA issues, but there clearly is something that goes beyond just the flash memory.
It doesn't seem to be able to boot from floppy. It starts to boot normally and then on the smiling mac it spits out the floppy and goes back to the flashing disk image. I've tried this with a half dozen disk images now. And with non-system disks it doesn't do that... So is this a ROM problem?