On 11/13/10 10:10 AM, John Carmonne wrote:
On Nov 12, 2010, at 11:56 AM, Yersinia wrote:
Hiya Listers...
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,
~Yersinia.
I think your battery is done. I have a machine that did this after purchase of
a new batt. It turned out that the battery would show about 50% charge and then
shut down I would then plug it in and upon booting the charge indicator reports
0% charge so after it got to 99% and I would try on the battery again and again
always the same shut down result. The battery is defective, I have a couple of
them that show 4 lights after charging but only make a chime and then lights
out:-)
Yup that's what Bruce said, that that battery was dying. Alas, though, I
can't buy a new battery right now so I actually went back to the
original battery (the one the "dying" battery had been purchased this
summer to replace!), which, though it has less "health" than the dying
one which was giving me the surprise shutdowns at between 50-60% but
when I rebooted after plugging in wall juice, was reading in the 40-50%
range, which made me really not understand, since in the past I'd gotten
a good deal lower than that and got a warning about needing to plug in
wall juice! -- is not suddenly shutting down (for NOW anyway. It would
be illogical to assume that all conditions remain stable... ;-) )
Well ::::sigh:::: this is just going to have to ride, and it may be
quite awhile before I can go anywhere with the iBook that doesn't have a
wall juice outlet. But at least I know what the problem IS, anyway, so
that makes me feel better.
Thanks!
~Yersinia.
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