I-Book battery causing freezes?

Yesterday my i-book started freezing up completely. I tried everything, and eventually re-enstalled OS X, but it still kept freezing. So on a totally random whim I removed my battery and am running just on wall power. So far it has not frozen up again for the last 8 or 9 hours at least. It would seem that the battery is my problem. So has anyone else had this issue, or at least heard of it?

Hi Zippo138,
Welcome to the Discussions.
Try resetting the PMU .
John

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your computer; a new battery if properly calibrated
and the other aspects of the general system are good,
the machine should work.
Have you tried starting the computer in SafeBoot,
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edited.

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