Hi Johannes,
Yeah, you should try resetting the power supply -- it's a little recessed button on the back of the PowerBook, marked with a triangle inside a circle, and you need a pen or a straightened paperclip to push it down. You want to hold it down for at least 30 seconds (this will cause your computer to turn off, so make sure you quit all open applications first).
The other thing you should do is completely discharge all the power from your battery -- i.e., keep running it down even after the "reserve battery power" warning comes up, until the computer actually turns off due to lack of power.
This may buy you a little wiggle room -- but if you're still on your original battery, you've done very well! My girlfriend's old PowerBook went through 3 batteries in five years.
If you do need a replacement battery, Other World Computing is probably the best place to get one:
http://tinyurl.com/4s7m9
- Darcy ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY
On 02 Dec 2004, at 10:50 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
Sorry, this is a little off-topic, feel free to reply to me personally.
My Powerbook battery has all of a sudden decided to have very much less capacity than before, and I am wondering whether there is something I can try to get it back to normal. It is quite possible that it has indeed reached its eol, but perhaps there is something I can try?
It's a very old Powerbook Wallstreet, running both OS X Panther and OS 9.
Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de
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