7Mar/02Off
Power for my PowerBook
My AC adaptor is flaky, so sometimes I have to futz with it before it'll actually be providing power. To make things worse, my battery is on it's last legs... (it would tell you it's just a flesh wound) I'm lucky to get 20 minutes battery life on it.
Got into work this morning, and plugged in my PowerBook as usual. Unfortunately, now my AC adaptor is completely screwed. And, my battery was drained. PowerBook is dead. Won't boot.
So unfortunately that means I have to replace them. I was hoping to wait a month before I did it but looks like that won't happen. 
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March 7th, 2002 - 10:47
On 3/7/02, Jim Roepcke said:
>My AC adaptor is flaky, so sometimes I have to futz with it before
>it’ll actually be providing power. To make things worse, my
>battery is on it’s last legs… (it would tell you it’s just a
>flesh wound) I’m lucky to get 20 minutes battery life on it.
>
>Got into work this morning, and plugged in my PowerBook as usual.
> Unfortunately, now my AC adaptor is completely screwed. And, my
>battery was drained. PowerBook is dead. Won’t boot.
Jim,
See article id 60655 in the Apple Support knowledge base.
Does that apply to your situation?
Seth
March 7th, 2002 - 10:54
On Thursday, March 7, 2002, at 10:47 AM, Seth Dillingham
wrote:
>> Got into work this morning, and plugged in my PowerBook as usual.
>> Unfortunately, now my AC adaptor is completely screwed. And, my
>> battery was drained. PowerBook is dead. Won’t boot.
>
> Jim,
>
> See article id 60655 in the Apple Support knowledge base.
>
> Does that apply to your situation?
>
> Seth
I don’t think so. The PowerBook never has problems detecting or using
the battery (as long as it’s not completely drained), it’s just the
battery can’t hold a charge anymore.
Jim
March 7th, 2002 - 11:01
On 3/7/02, Jim Roepcke said:
>I don’t think so. The PowerBook never has problems detecting or
>using the battery (as long as it’s not completely drained), it’s
>just the battery can’t hold a charge anymore.
That article mentions, near the bottom, that it completely drains
and resets the battery. I had a problem very similar to yours, and
completely draining the battery down to 0% charge allows it to
completely recharge again, but you have to use that utility to do
it, with the AC plugged in (running the computer off the battery
will naver take it down far enough).
Seth