Powerbook G4 Sleep mode problem

Hi everyone,for some days my friend's Powerbook g4 is going to sleep mode every 2-3 mins. I removed the AC Adapter to try the powerbook only with the battery, the powerbook going to sleep mode after 2-3 mins... I removed the battery and connected the AC Adapter, same bug appened. So i read about how to reset the Power Management Unit.
Well, when I reseted the PMU, the powerbook worked well for about 1 hour, and after... Sleep mode again and again...
Is the powerbook dead ?? Or some internal battery dead ?
Thx for reading and helping, and sorry for my bad english...
- Philip

Sadly my Apple Care has expired for this product.
I followed their instructions to reset the power module, but it still did not work.
Then I tried booting under the TechTool disk that came with the AppleCare kit and the display fucntioned just fine - so I assumed as they say on the site, the system is corrupted (which it likely is due to a faulty heat sensor or some code that may be easily replaced)
ONLY PROBLEM - My computer is now in 'system load' mode, and I cannot get back to any sort of directory to remove the necessary files:
1) go to HD-Library-preferences-SystemConfig and trash com.apple.powermanagement.plist. Empty Trash
2) shutdown and then reset power management unit by holding Opt-Ctrl-Shft-Power for 5 sec.
3) restart
Detailed info at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14449
How can get the system to reinstall if it is going to sleep every 15 seconds? Is there some code I can override prior to boot up?

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I have read your post on how your notebook computer is experiencing an issue with waking up from sleep mode, and I would be happy to assist you in this matter!
To further diagnose this issue, I recommend following the steps in this document on Troubleshooting sleep and hibernate issues in Windows 8. This should help configure your power management settings to effectively use sleep mode on your system.
Additionally, you can also restore your notebook's default power schemes by following the steps below:
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Step 3. Right-click Command Prompt
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reference: http://superuser.com/questions/669571/windows-8-1-64-bit-power-schemes-gone
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My 'old faithful' 17" G4 PowerBook 1.67GHz behaves differently after the latest SW update to 10.5.8 build 9L30:
When ordered to go to sleep mode (german: "Ruhezustand") either by Apple-menu command or closing the display does no longer result i slowly flashing white standby-LED but the LED remains dark and the PowerBook will not resume when the display is flipped open again or the power-button is pressed.
It can only be reactivated with <ctrl><apple><power-button>.
Before that, it behaved as expected i.e. resuming operation after flipping the display open again or pressing any keyboard key when in power save mode.
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Not really sure when it stopped sleeping (have been on the ball with 10.4.x updates) but has been the case for some time now.
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Joe,
No Classic running; haven't had Classic on my system for at least 6 years. You could say that I'm a bit of an OS X biggot, to be honest. No looking back, and all that.
Used Top/Activity Monitor, and nothing running save the daemons/procs that usually appear - certainly nothing that jumps out at me as a problem. Even disabled all virus checking just to make sure it hadn't developed an incompatability with something in one of the last updates - no effect. Seriously, this is a case of 'it worked yesterday, and now (post updates) it doesn't.' Not that it's evident what the culprit is; nothing on the 10.4.8 updates seems a likely candidate, nor does anything on the 10.4.7. And not that I could even pin point when it happened either - simply became evident over time that hard drive wasn't spinning down, Sleep light wasn't coming on, etc.
I'm tempted to fish out my ol' TI Book 400, and give it a go and see if it has problems. Would at least eliminate any hardware dependencies that might be an issue. Don't know that I can be bothered though - in the grand scheme of things, it's just a minor thing and digging much deeper would require effort that would get in the way of real work.
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I hope that this post ends some frustrations for some people.
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svchw wrote:
Then I called Lenovo/IBM Atlanta support team, and was told to try to update my BIOS. So I preceeded with that too. Because I have Vista64, I have to download an iso image and burn a bootable CD with Roxio Creator (preinstalled on T400), and changed the BIOS startup sequence to boot from the internal CD drive. Somehow, T400 couldn't boot from the CD I burned with the BIOS update iso image. So I am back to suqare one.
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Sorry, I have to ask the usual iso burn question: are you burning it as a file, or as an image? If your cd is readable under windows (or whatever) and has a file on it called xxx.iso, you probably used the wrong burn option.
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