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Title: Ac Without Battery
Post by: strfryed on September 29, 2005, 10:50:24 pm

My SL--6000L wouldn't turn on today, only to look at the back and see the battery had blown up (literally)!

I plugged it into AC without the battery and it just blinks the battery light.

Anyone know if there's a way to hack/mod it to boot on AC power without a battery?

The batteries are expensive.

Title: Ac Without Battery
Post by: cortez on September 30, 2005, 03:26:23 am

Remove the battery, and connect the AC Adapter while pressing D+B. The machine will boot, login, enter superuser mode (su), and type ./sbin/reboot. This reboots the machine, and starts your OS.

Title: Ac Without Battery
Post by: adf on September 30, 2005, 11:41:47 pm

I was hoping to find a way to mod it for plain old aa batteries or something else easily replaceable.  The exploding battery thing is a bit spooky.

Title: Ac Without Battery
Post by: strfryed on September 30, 2005, 11:57:47 pm

Thanks a ton!  You guys know everything.

Title: Ac Without Battery
Post by: mjb on March 31, 2006, 02:57:00 pm

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I was hoping to find a way to mod it for plain old aa batteries or something else easily replaceable.  The exploding battery thing is a bit spooky.
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If you can boot it 'from AC,' you can boot it with an external battery pack. The AC adapter just provides 5 Volts DC. Four AA NiMH cells will do that just as well.

Title: Ac Without Battery
Post by: lek on August 22, 2006, 01:02:11 pm

Hi, I have a problem with my zsl 6k not booting up.  The 1/0 button does not seem to work.  I have tried a hard reboot but that does not help.  There seems to be power in the battery.  I have tried D+B, but no soap.  I hope this is not a brick now!

Cheers,
lek