IBook will not charge
Hello I have a 1.2 ghz iBook G4 and it will not charge. When I plug it the light ring is a light amber instead of the usual dark amber when it is charging successfully. Is there anything I can do, I can not turn it on because the battery is dead.
These are the four most common possibilities when the battery will not charge (in the order of from most common to least common):
(1) there is something wrong with your battery
(2) there is something wrong with your power adapter
(3) there is something wrong with your power input board (the part that contains the port where you plug in the adapter)
(4) there is something wrong with your logic board
Have you tried resetting the PMU? A charging problem may certainly be corrected by performing that procedure.
Have you tried switching adapters with one you know is working to make certain it isn't your adapter? (My husband and I have, between us, worn out four of them.)
Your power input (DC-in) board (the part of the computer which houses the adapter port) may be going bad if it sometimes will charge the battery and sometimes won’t. Sometimes it will work intermittently before quitting entirely. When a DC-in board quits working, the computer will run fine from the battery, but won't run from the adapter, and the adapter will no longer charge the battery. To diagnose a bad DC-in board, you need to make sure it isn't the battery or the adapter at fault by swapping out first one and then the other, If it runs from a known good charged battery okay, but won't run from a known good adapter, then you are going to have to replace the power input board.
Usually, if it is a logic board problem, the iBook simply will not run from the battery. This happened to mine. The battery showed up in the battery status indicator. It was recognized by the computer and charged by the adapter (as shown by the battery status indicator). However, when I unplugged the adapter from the iBook, it was just like pulling the power cord from the wall on a desktop. The iBook immediately shutdown. Dead.
My husband’s problem was quite obviously the power input board because the adapter tip had broken off in the port. Often (and, sadly, in our case), this damages the power input board so that it no longer functions, necessitating replacement of the board as well as the broken adapter.
I hope something here gives you some ideas of what may be wrong in your case.
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