Okay. so I recently swapped a 5300cs motherboard into my 190cs, and things
were fine. I installed os9 and wireless software for a wavelan card, and
things were fine. I was eking out about an hour and a half on a charge,
which I figured was pretty ****ed good for an original issue pb190 / 5300
battery. But then...

I installed a larger hard drive - a whole gig, instead of the original 500
meg! To make a long story short, the drive appears to be bad. During the
process of confirming this, however, my battery stopped supplying power to
the system - the second I pull the power cord, the machine dies. It also
fails to keep pram settings when you do this. The pram settings stay around
between restarts if you power cord stays connected.

An attempt to zap pram during startup results in an instant power down of
the system. The system will not power up at all unless the power cord is
plugged in, and when I do plug it in, it powers up on it's own - no touching
a power key is nessicary. I'm using VST's expansion bay power supply, if
that makes any difference. The power board that plugs into the motherboard
appears to be connected properly and undamaged. Oh, and i just tried to run
Battery Recondition on the machine... as soon was I confirmed that it was
okay to recondition, the power died to the machine. :p

Any clues / hints / suggestions on what might be wrong, or how to fix this?
I was just getting used to lugging this thing around fully untethered;
having to keep it plugged in would suck.

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