From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Sat Aug 19 2000 - 00:27:52 EDT
Blaine..
heh heh..
well, the freight business is still alive.. barely.. but alive..
i sure hope it will become a source of income tax liability rather than a great
but costly writeoff..
what did the dirt was a trucker in arizona, D&H (i think) who stiffed us to the
tune of $12k and a couple of bad drivers who delivered a short load.. 75 cases
short on one.. so, hopefully the company will survive and.. well.. :-)
1. I vote for the battery..
2. not sure what effect the NiMH board in the machine is going to have, but you
should be running with a NiMH battery..
3. check to see if there is a loose washer shorting something.. like the second
battery connector under the CD-ROM..
4. if you DO choose to upgrade, i suggest a used 770 series or a used 600.... skip
the 760 series since i think you'll find the price differential less than the
difference between the two models..
5 AND, if you are not using the machine for more than you say, go back to win95B..
which will run so much faster..
now, don't drive that truck off the road.. keep your log up to date.. ;-) and only
buy good diesel..
Blaine Hufnagle wrote:
> I've got a 755CD that's showing some real problems when running on battery
> power. I'm trying to determine if I need to throw down the wad of cash I
> need for a new battery, or go ahead and upgrade to a 76x-class machine.
>
> Symptoms:
>
> Exceedingly limited battery life; going from fully charged to
> blinking-battery-LED before it finishes booting
>
> Reliable battery life less than 15 minutes, even after reconditioning
>
> [These two pretty much say it's a bad battery, but....]
>
> Sometimes when it wants to run for more than 20 minutes or so, it'll
> hard-lock; so hard that even the power switch doesn't work. It takes
> hitting the reset switch in back to get it to recover.
>
> I realize that the manual's promise of 3-3.5 hours on a charge is highly
> unrealistic, but I'd think that 1.5 hours or so would be within reason.
>
> I did have to replace the power board in it. It came with the Li-Ion
> capable board, but I replaced it with the NiMH board. Would that give me
> any problems on a P-75 machine? I've not had any real problems so far.
>
> Note that it will run flawlessly (or, DID, before I left out last time) for
> days when in a Dock-II.
>
> I'm running WinNT4, SP-6a. Are there any OS issues I should attempt to
> address? Running NT4 so far has resulted in fairly reliable use, and at
> one time I was getting two weeks or more of stability with multiple
> suspend/resume cycles per day.
>
> We bought a copy of Open Source Linux to try on it, but I'm concerned about
> power management under Linux, and since this machine sees stationary usage
> once every three months or so, power management is critical.
>
> This machine runs in a high-vibration environment, and has been subjected
> to multiple drops from table-top height, albeit onto a padded floor. I did
> discover last week that one of the tiny screws in the CD-ROM drive had come
> out and was running loose inside the machine. I extracted it, but it's
> still having problems. I was thinking that maybe something had gotten
> shorted, but it seems to behave itself otherwise, and always passes POST.
>
> The machine has been remarkably reliable otherwise, especially considering
> the abuse I give it. What is making me think about upgrading is that most
> of the few websites I visit regularly have long-since gone to an 800x600
> format, and the 640x480 screen of the 755CD is not quite big enough any
> more. Also worth considering is that while Win2K will load and boot on the
> machine without incident, it's phenomenally slow, and as such is useless.
>
> About all I do on this machine is check e-mail and light-duty web browsing.
> I do use Excel to run a couple of business spreadsheets to keep track of
> my mileages. But, nothing that's heavily processor intensive. I was
> thinking about seeing if I could find a 760-series with a P-133 or so. My
> problem with the newer machines is the blasted "wrist rest." My hands are
> big enough that the wrist rest makes touch-typing almost impossible.
> Anyone got a 760 they'd be willing to part with, CHEAP?
>
> ObPersonal to Bill Morrow: How's the freight business?
>
> -blaine
> The Zen Method of Big Rig: Grasshopper, truck will shift itself if you are
> one with it.- Bill Keith (Cruising the Info-Bahn in a Freightliner dry van :-)
> DoD #7192 (but no bike) Powerlifting LIFE - The rest is details.
> http://www.powerbear.com
-- ---Happy trails...
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