Nearly on topic-ish. Digital HiNote VP laptop

From: Rob O'Donnell <classiccmp.org_at_irrelevant.fsnet.co.uk>
Date: Fri Apr 23 13:29:02 2004

At 14:48 23/04/2004 +0100, Witchy wrote:

>Folks,
>
>Discovered I had said old machine in storage the other day and I thought
>it'd make a neat little webserver for when I'm away from home working and
>will have nothing better to do than PHP hacking.
>
>First time I powered up it sprang to life but locked up because the CMOS
>battery (non-standard dammit) is obviously flat. Subsequent powerups with or
>without battery installed (you can replace the floppy drive with a dedicated
>AC input) result in a beep and pretty much nothing else.
>
>Anyone come across these wee beasties before? Aside from when they were new,
>obviously :o)
>
>cheers

I've got one here. HiNote VP, Model TS30G. Pentium 133 ISTR.

Mine works fine with battery removed, just running off the external ac
adapter.

I have had them lock up when the save-to-disc on powerdown gets mangled,
but removing all forms of power (taking battery out and disconnecting ac
adapter) generally sorts that, so I presume it's not your problem. I've
also seen it power up with the LCD backlight off, or it switched to
external-monitor mode (not sure which) so pressing Fn & various
display-type options on the number keys can get it back.

Somewhere I've got a spare docking station for one of these too, if it's of
any use to you? Brings out all the normal PC-style ports into a useable
format, and has ethernet (10baseT and 10base2) built in.

regards

Rob.
Received on Fri Apr 23 2004 - 13:29:02 BST