Omnibook OB-425 Help

[Bill (Smithville NJ)]

(10-10-2018 01:58 AM)Eddie W. Shore Wrote:  I won this laptop as a door prize at HHC 2018. Am I correct that the OB-425 takes four AA batteries? I tried the batteries and it did not seem to turn on. Does it take long to warm up?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi Eddie,

I'm thinking that you won one of the Omnibooks I had donated.
After putting the batteries in, did you try pressing the
small reset button on the rear? Try the reset and also try removing and reinserting the batteries several times. It should power up. Also, check the voltage on the batteries to make sure one of them is not dead.

It should turn on instantly with the boot up screen. Once booted up to the operating system, then the on/off basically operates like a sleep switch.

Question: Is it the OB-425 with the OB-425 ROM Card or the one with the OB-430 Rom card? If it's the one with the OB-430 card it is in effect an OB-430 and can load other operating systems.

Bill
Smithville, NJ