On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Henry B. Hotz wrote:

> All's well that ends well, mostly.  I took out the backup battery, 
> unplugged the machine, waited a day, put the original 604 back in and 
> everything came back up (slowly).  Only residual problem I see is 
> that starting Netscape crashes the machine, but that could be due to 
> my swapping a disk while I had the case open.

On my Beige G3, I only had to wait a few hours. Shorting the battery
contacts together helped, as did installing the battery backwarrds
(thought I'm still leery of the latter).

Glad it's back!

Take care,

Bill