A well covered power issue post....

Hi!
Well, here goes again. I've read alot on the forum about power issues and the iBook...and now it's happened to me. I've posted to see if there's any 'fresh' advice.
Basically, my HD was totally screwed, so on Monday i had it replaced with a new 80g Western Digital jobbie. Brilliant little drive, so quiet and quick compared to the original Toshiba... Anyway, it was replaced by an authorised Apple retailer, got it home, re-installed everything, all was fine and dandy.
This evening, i came to use the computer. It powered up and everything. I'm on it now, so it's still functioning ok. The only problem now is the power supply.
My battery has been at 91% all evening, with the charger plugged in. The little light ring glowed orange when i first plugged the adaptor in...well, actually, when i teased it around the charger hole. When fully inserted, the battery icon detcts the power supply, but doesn't charge. I took the battery out and powered up the Mac with charger plugged in and it worked fine-but still no glowing ring.
Now, it was fine yesterday when i was doing all my install's, but tonight nothing. I've reset the PMU (or whatever it is), but thats not helped. I think the battery number is something like A1046...could that be at fault? Or is it possible that the engineers disturbed something when they had it apart? I've just spent £180 on the HD replacement, i can't afford any more, so if it's possible the engineers are at fault they can repair it!
Any advice or ideas gratefully welcomed-i love my Mac but the last week or so i've started to lose a little faith...
Dan

Hi Brody...
Thanks for the link to your page-very useful, with just the links alone.
I've made a little progress...well, not progress-i've managed to get light out of the ring on the charger barrel. When fully pushed in to the Mac, there is no light. HOWEVER, if i get the pin and touch it against the socket on the Mac (by socket, i mean where you plug the charger in) on the side, it glow's a faint orange. If i semi insert the pin/barrel slow enough i can get the ring to go Green, but it is microscopic movements to get this. This doesn't however, get the battery charging. As soon as the barrel is pushed home, it's just back to how it was-holding the battery's charge and thats it!
So, i've established that the charger ring still works, i've seen it orange and green. I've wiggled wires etc, changed plugs but it's still going out when fully inserted.
How bad does that sound?? Eeep!

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Do you by any chance have a friend with a battery that is known to be good? If you could determine that your computer has the same problems even with a battery that is known to be good, then you have a good argument for the problem being with the board. If the problems disappear, then they might be due to a failing battery.
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Try the wireless now and report back, I have a feeling the power management part of the software is failing somewhere..
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The Flex team has a group called the Architecture Review Board that meets
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<div class=Section1> color:#1F497D'>Cheers fella<o:p></o:p> color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p> color:#1F497D'>As it said, it was a very little import. <span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J<span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p> color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p> <div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'> "Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Matt Chotin [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 07 February 2009 20:26 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: ARB issues posted<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> A new message was posted by Matt Chotin in Developers -- ARB issues posted Yeah, given our push for a paperless world I’m not sure if I can spend a lot of time trying to make pretty PDFs :-) I know that the confluence standard output with our current template doesn’t convert to PDF nicely. 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No Wireless Issues - Post Your Router

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After a few minutes of battery power, it went to reserve. I still tried a fourth outlet to no avail, then just shut it down at about 12% reserve. Now I can't get it to start up at all.
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Hi, Sluggo. Remove the main battery, plug the AC adapter into an outlet that causes the adapter's ring light to come on, and leave the powerbook that way to charge the internal backup battery for at least four hours (overnight is easy). Then put the main battery back in, give that some time to charge up at least partially, and then try starting the PB (still on AC power). Post back with results.
A weak or dead backup battery can prevent a Tibook from starting at all. A weak or dead main battery may, in some cases, divert all charging energy away from the backup battery until the main battery is fully charged — or indefinitely, if the main battery is no longer capable of taking a charge. The main battery charge-level indicator on the menu bar is usually wildly inaccurate by the time the battery is only able to deliver ~30 minutes of ordinary working time. Whatever percentage it reports is probably untrustworthy and may be pure moonshine.
With respect to different outlets producing different results in the adapter, that isn't related to the backup battery. Try a different, known-good AC adapter, if possible, and see whether it behaves the same way yours does when connected to your various electrical outlets. If its behavior is identical (not likely but possible), read the two articles linked below and consider getting an uninterruptible power supply unit to condition your AC power, which may be noisy.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302461
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=32155
If a known-good adapter behaves normally and as expected when connected to all your outlets, replace your adapter.

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I am having some strange power issues with my six week old Macbook. The symptoms are as follows (I apologise in advance for the length of this post) :
1) If the battery charge is below 50%, and you connect the magsafe charger prior to power-on, the charge light will illuminate until the grey boot screen comes up. Then the charge light turns of completely & the Macbook boots up using battery power. If I disconnect the magsafe connector, followed by the mains and reconnect in the reverse sequence, the light turns green momentarily and then orange (as it should for charging)
2) If I start the coconutBattery application after booting into OSX, while the charge is still below 50%, the same issue occurs again with the magsafe. It appears to happen at the exact time the application queries the battery. I can get the charger working if I follow the same disconnect/mains/reconnect sequence.
3) The issues above also seems to occur when the battery updater checks the battery. The Macbook does not recognise that the charger is plugged in.
4) If the charge is above 50%, then all works as expected. The coconutBattery application does not affect the charger. The Macbook works as normal.
I have tested with a brand new magsafe & a new battery - symptoms are identical. I have noticed several other non-consistent issues - the flashing green light/orange light on the magsafe connection, unusual battery life calculations (70+ hours).
I have performed calibrations & reset the PMU and the PRAM, and have all current updates. And I have spent a large amount of time in the forums looking at similar issues without much success. I am beginning to suspect the logic board (DC chip) is at fault, however I dont relish the idea of dropping my new Macbook at my local Apple Repair centre & getting it back three weeks later with the same issue.
My current cycles (on this new battery) are at 2 with a full charge capacity of 5142 mAh.
My questions to the community are:
Does anyone have a similar experience with these types of symptoms?
Or can someone illustrate on what would cause the Macbook to believe that the magsafe was disconnected? Whatever internal system call the coconutBattery application uses to recover details from the battery appears to trigger this behavior.
I would appreciate any thoughts on this one.
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Just another observation, based on reading some of Apple's documentation regarding the AC charger:
"If the adapter works after this 60-second "rest," you most likely have a line noise issue with your power source that will require you to reset the adapter (by repeating this moment of rest) periodically. This happens when the AC adapter's over voltage protection feature senses ground noise and then turns off the adapter."
Could a sudden draw of power required at a 50% and below charge trip this over voltage protection feature? I know the charging draw varies based on current battery level.
I have tested this in UPS protected boards with the same result.

Serious Power Issues with T61

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The organization I work for has started to have some serious power issues with our T61 model Thinkpads. Additionally, the problem now seem to be carrying over into our T500 Thinkpads.
About 4 months ago we started receiving consistant calls regarding users that can't power their laptops on. These are T61 and T500 laptops mounted to mobile carts in our various nursing units in numerous hospitals. These laptops sit stationary for 95% of the time and are almost always plugged into wall power. We quickly discovered that the only way to get the laptops to power on was to unplug them from all power sources and reseat the battery, after which they powered right on. We've had this problem in the past with users T61s that aren't on carts, but this is slightly different as the batteries on the cart mounted laptops are always 100% drained after we reseat them.
I'm completely baffled by this issue. I've tried every variation of 3 different carts, -- one with external battery on cart, two without -- both 90 and 65 watt power supplies, and standard and 9 cell batteries that I can come up with and the problem continues to occur. Initially we had atributed the problem to ESD because this started during the low humidity months of winter, but it is now spring and the problem is still happening.
Under normal circumstances I'd just replace the few ailing laptops and call them in under warranty, but this seems to be a general model issue as this is occuring across the board on 100+ laptops at this hospital alone. Any assistance to help identify the issue and/or how to resolve it would be appreciated.
Thanks,
David

Slider5634,
Do you have a critical situation open for this? If so, while you are free to post here, working through the project office as a managed account should get you to the right level of support to address an issue that sounds pervasive, and may or may not be influenced by unknown environmental factors.
If you don't have a situation open, then I would urdge you to contact your account rep. If you need help, or unsure of this, please send me a PM with your contact information, and your hospital or corp account name so I can get you the right level of assistance.
jgm1234,
What model type T61's are you experiencing this issue with? Can you provide some more information here about the situation? Configuration, when this first started occuring, environment (connected to lan, wired / wireless, stand alone, all in same physical location, or distributed at multiple locations, etc)
Thanks!
Mark
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