un egg speck ted

Been having some gradual issues with the vista machine... screen wouldn't come back from sleep sometimes.. it was intermittent and hard to trace..
I updated the bios (since they said it was a critical update), and it restarted fine.
The next day it went into a Won't-Start-Loop :/
Thank goodness I could do research on my good ole mac g4..

After gobs of reading and research though, the trails started to lead toward the battery, since many accounts said they were getting very short life spans in some cases, even as low as three months, and mine was 18 months old.

Some computers won't even run without a battery, a good battery, even if plugged in. My mac 6100 is like that. Would this be one of those machines?

So I took the battery out.

Now ... it seems like it runs TWICE as fast as before! :D
*whew* ...nice to have a silver lining after a tenuous situation.... ... ... *peep!*

I hope this info can help soem of you also... if your machine acts odd, check the battery, or even the motherboard wafer battery before egg speckting the worst ^v^