On Thursday, December 4, 2003, at 10:49 AM, Ed Theriault wrote:
First, the book won't power up without the power adapter being used the battery control strip shows the battery
being charged but then shows the battery with a red X over it (menu bar) and the control strip shows the expansion bay as empty.
I'm assuming a bad battery. Any thoughts different to this?
Ed, both of these sound like problems I've had with my Pismo. First, the battery is probably dead. If it's the original battery that came with the laptop, the age is probably about right for replacement. I had to buy a new one a few months ago -- I believe it was through MacConnection or MacMall. There's an Apple utility called Apple Battery Reset that runs under OS 9 (only, if I'm not mistaken) that can sometimes salvage batteries on G3-series PBs. You can find it through Version Tracker.
Second, The CD/DVD drive only reads DVD's no CD's are read, the drive spins up but no icon on the desktop.
I've reloaded the latest extension for OS 9.1 with the same result.
This is a common problem on the Pismos that shipped with problematic LG drives. You can check System Profiler or the drive itself for the letters LG, which indicate one of these drives. The PBs that shipped with Matsushita-manufactured drives are not reported to have the same problems. In any case, the only real solution is to replace it. There are replacement drives offered by MCE Tech and if you look around on eBay, you can usually find several there as well. I probably should have sent mine to Apple for replacement as I've got AppleCare, but I didn't want to give the laptop up for several days. Also, I've heard that Apple is sometimes unwilling to admit this problem, and has been known to ship the 'Books back with yet another LG drive, which soon exhibits the same problems. I use mine with an external FW CDR drive most of the time, so it hasn't been a terrible inconvenience except when traveling since I don't feel like lugging the external drive around with me.
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