After using the 500MHz Sonnet in my "good" Wallstreet for a few hours, I discovered something that didn't happen when I had the stock Apple 266MHz CPU inside. Now with the Sonnet card, if I close the lid, the machine sleeps. But if I then open the lid and hid any keyboard key, I get a boot chime and blank screen. It stays that way forever, unless I use fn-ctrl-shift-Power to shut it down. I've not found any other problems though.
So my previous post stands correct. I just cannot explain this Wake-from-Sleep problem with the Sonnet card on this "good" Wallstreet. I found this discussion which seems to parallel my Wake problem exactly, but the closing two posts about a "metal strip" make no sense to me. Any ideas?
I can only add one more thing. On my "bad" Wallstreet (the one that gives me crashes, regardless of the CPU card), I cannot boot with a battery in the left bay. It will work with the battery in the right bay though. It's strange because when I first tested this computer, after I had bought it off EBAY a month ago, the machine had the stock battery in the left bay and it booted fine from the battery. And it was only after I put in a brand new battery (one I purchased from OWC), that I heard a strange noise and then the machine shutdown. After that I could not boot with the battery in the left drive bay. I Googled and found some people saying it could be caused by a bad Charger Card (820-0917-A). But why would mine have suddenly died? It's pretty scary to me. If parts in these machines die that easily, it makes no logical sense to keep repairing them! And is it really the Charger Card? Or could it be something else? Or could it be the Charger Card AND something else too?
Gentlemen, I am brand new to the world of PowerBook Wallstreets, so I need to tap your knowledge to know what's going on. Because right now I am very frustrated and confused.
Thank you.
So my previous post stands correct. I just cannot explain this Wake-from-Sleep problem with the Sonnet card on this "good" Wallstreet. I found this discussion which seems to parallel my Wake problem exactly, but the closing two posts about a "metal strip" make no sense to me. Any ideas?
I can only add one more thing. On my "bad" Wallstreet (the one that gives me crashes, regardless of the CPU card), I cannot boot with a battery in the left bay. It will work with the battery in the right bay though. It's strange because when I first tested this computer, after I had bought it off EBAY a month ago, the machine had the stock battery in the left bay and it booted fine from the battery. And it was only after I put in a brand new battery (one I purchased from OWC), that I heard a strange noise and then the machine shutdown. After that I could not boot with the battery in the left drive bay. I Googled and found some people saying it could be caused by a bad Charger Card (820-0917-A). But why would mine have suddenly died? It's pretty scary to me. If parts in these machines die that easily, it makes no logical sense to keep repairing them! And is it really the Charger Card? Or could it be something else? Or could it be the Charger Card AND something else too?
Gentlemen, I am brand new to the world of PowerBook Wallstreets, so I need to tap your knowledge to know what's going on. Because right now I am very frustrated and confused.
Thank you.