Mac Portable problems (was Re: Mac Portable batt charger)

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_ncal.verio.com>
Date: Thu Aug 20 20:21:22 1998

On 20 Aug 1998, Marion Bates wrote:

> But wait, there's more! New problem. I have an external hard drive
> attached to the least messed-up Portable, which boots nicely, but
> anytime I insert a floppy disk, the machine restarts over and over. What
> triggers it is pushing the tiny white button just inside the floppy (it
> gets pressed by the disk usually, but I was trying to see what exactly
> was setting the restart loop in motion, and when I pushed down on that
> button alone that did it). It WAS working fine with floppies before.

It sounds to me like you have a power supply problem my friend. From what
you've told us thus far, it seems that whenever a device requiring lots of
power, like a floppy or hard drive, turns on the computer starts an
endless cycle of rebooting. This could indicate that the power being
sucked up by the drive is so much that it shuts down the computer. Then
the computer comes back up and the hard drive or floppy is still spinning
(and sucking juice) so it shuts down again, then comes back up and etc.

Just a guess.

Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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