HP 9000 800/G40 battery?/cable

Ok guys, The only other person I've been able to contact regarding this HP console cable tells me that there are only 2 pins connected on his cable too, so I'm going to assume the cable -- since it works -- is correct. :) I can still post a "corrected" pin mapping, though. Anyway, on to the next problem. How does the battery backup system work? My understanding is that there's a battery in each PSU, and when you lose power, those batteries will maintain the RAM contents. The machine should then resume in-place when the power comes back. Is this right? Here is why I'm confused: The charging light came on when I first plugged the machine in. It went off a while later. So it seems to think the battery is charged. I tried to test this last night, by plugging the system into a surge bar with a disconnect switch. I booted the system, ran some programs, and cut the power. After about 20 seconds, I applied power again. At this point the machine will boot -- noticing, and warning me that there was a power failure -- and bring the system up in the normal "hey, you didn't unmount this disk properly" fashion. As far as I can tell, none of the processes I'd left running were there. There is a configurable variable in the kernel -- something to do with power failure -- I have tried this twice with the variable set to both 1 and 0. What am I missing? At this point I'd like to find out whether it's likely to be operator error before I go poking around for the batteries. :) Regards, Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '