PB 12" 867 The battery is in, but the indicator in the menu bar says no
Hi,
My alubook has a strange problem. It is 2,5 years old and I had no battery problem during a long time. For the past 2 or 3 weeks, I have to use the powerbook with the power connected, the PB seems not to "see" that a battery is plugged whatever it is or not charged.
Does someone already has had the same kind of problem ? How has it been solve ?
Thanks
JM Vignau
Bummer… what about zapping PRAM and resetting the PMU?
Already tried that and still nothing. I noticed reading though older posts that others are having a similar problem I wonder if this is unsolvable
I tried running coconutBattery. It shows no charge in the battery and that the battery is not charging while the 0% is in the battery icon. When the X appears in the battery icon coconutBattery goes really wierd and gives the same output as it there was not battery at all. Also to clarify the system profiler doesn't see a battery connected when the X is present in the icon.
The battery does appear to be charging however while the icon has the 0% in the battery window. Just over this afternoon have gone from 4 to all the green indicators lit up. Just too bad that the computer can't see that the battery is charged. It still simply switches from 0% to the X in the icon and shuts down right away if I disconnect the power adapter.
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.5)
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