On Nov 12, 2010, at 12:56 PM, Yersinia wrote: > About the G-book first: iBook G3/800 running Tiger 10.4.11. > > Do any of you have any idea why this otherwise has-always-been- and-still-is > wonderful iBook is suddenly shutting down on me without warning when it's > still got 50-60% battery juice left in it? Sometimes in the past on those few > occasions I was admittedly not paying attention to battery usage, it would > TELL me it was running on reserve battery power and would shut down soon if I > didn't supply it with wall juice, and when I'd plug it in, I'd find that > yeah, the battery was at 5% or less. > > Now it just shuts down in the 50-something % range. I did a PRAM zap but > that didn't help it -- it still did the sudden shutdown when it hit that > range. > > Thanks in advance,
That's a very common symptom of dying batteries. Every battery I've ever replaced in fact, did that before the end. If its an original battery it's had a good long life... -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
