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Strange thing happened with my PowerBook
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Join Date: Mar 2002
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The strangest thing just happened.
I turned on my T1 PowerBook 1ghz and I was using it. The battery was low and all of a sudden the the thing went to sleep and the little white light started to blink slowly. I figured it was because of the low battery so I decided I'd try to bring it out of sleep and shut it down. I tried clicking on a couple keys, then I tried the on button, it wouldn't wake up. I then held down the on button and it wouldn't force shutdown. So I figured I'd take the battery out and then put it back in to force it to shut down. After I took out the battery for a few seconds, the light was still on. I took out the battery again, this time for almost 20 seconds. I put it in and it was still blinking. I figured ok, it might be blinking, but there is no way the Ram will not loose everything while the battery was out.
I brought my PowerBook into the other room and plugged it into the Power Adapter. I noticed that the white light was still blinking. I figured I'd lift up the LCD for viewing and I may have clicked on a key and OSX instantly popped right up right with the program I was using right as I left it.
I didn't realize there was an extra battery to maintain ram when the battery was pulled out.
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Downtown Austin, TX
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Yes, it will sleep for roughly 2 minutes without a battery. This is so you can change batteries on the run.
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Admin Emeritus  Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
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*Yawn*
So you didn't read your PB's manual, eh? 
If it's a 15" or 17" model (or any pre-G4 PowerBook), then it has a backup battery to let you swap batteries in sleep mode. It's no accident, it's there on purpose.
The 12" model does not have the backup battery, nor does any iBook.
When a PowerBook goes to sleep due to a low battery, it will not allow you to wake it until it has a fresh power source. This is because they figured it would be better to give you a day of sleep mode to find juice (and have no data loss) than to let you wake it, run it till it dies, and then call them about how you decided to write your thesis in those last 2 minutes, then didn't save it before it croaked.
tooki
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Join Date: May 2004
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Originally posted by tooki:
This is because they figured it would be better to give you a day of sleep mode to find juice (and have no data loss) than to let you wake it, run it till it dies, and then call them about how you decided to write your thesis in those last 2 minutes, then didn't save it before it croaked.
tooki
Haha, good one, right one the money !  
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