Harry,
Thanks for the help. I purchased a new main battery and have replaced the Dallas part. I am using the Compaq Setup, Inspect and Diagnostics 8.00 DP256 disc that I downloaded from the web. From the setup utility I have been able to configure the standby parameters. The screen saver works, but the system does not go into standby when it is running from battery. One thing I have noticed is that standby program lists the current power source and lists mine as "External Power Supply" even when I am running from battery. I don't know if this means that I am using the wrong setup program, my hardware is broken or something about the replacement battery is not working correctly. The low battery light does start flashing after it has run on the battery for a while so clearly part of the machine knows it is running on battery.
I have installed dos from the Compaq Fastart 3.31 disc with the setup and operating system disc as well. Unfortunately I don't have the "Compaq User Programs" disk that is requested when you install DOS. I don't know if that installs some piece that is important for standby to work.
Does one need to add the power.exe device driver for standby to work? I have tried adding it to config.sys but it does not seem to help.
James
Hi James, you seem to have most things configured , although I use a different version of set up to reset my machine , ( ver 6.06 rev g ) but as long as the disk reconises your machine configuation , should work. one thing you could try, let the machine run down the battery power , until you get to the low battery level 1, the yellow led should start to flash,(which you say does happen,) and the speaker should make some beebs, at least this would show the system is reading the voltage left in the battery, if you continue to run down the battery further, it will go into low battery 2 mode, this now means the green power led should start flashing, if you get no indication of low battery levels , and no beebs, then something needs further investigating.
once it goes into low battery 2 mode, with flashing LED it would normally put itself in stanby , and to get out of stanby ,the mains adapter would be connected and the stanby button would have to be pressed to resume . your machine should at least give the LED signals down to level 2. further use would then result in a flat battery and loss of data, one other small point, the screen saver is a seperate utility, and runs outside of the PWRCON utility, and is not part of the stanby power conservation prog. I would have to check out what drives this utility within the system , but for me the battery in my machine is now defunct, so I taped across the battery terminals,and only run on the ac adaptor. well at least you have a super little computer, that has a superb keyboard action, and is a pleasure to use, even without the stanby working!! .............Harry