Hey vDog, Long time no hear from . . .
If your suspicions are correct, doing whatever to your hard disk won't correct it. Maybe try running the Hardware Test CD before shipping it off to Apple. Another suggestion would be to take this iBook back to its stock configuration (unless you bought it from Apple with the 640MB installed.) You could also boot the Mac from an OS 9 CD and see if resetting the power manager works that way. Ward on 10/14/2002 11:37 PM, vDog at vdog at iglou.com wrote: > Hi group, > > iBook 700MHz 640M OS 10.2 jugware (fresh install last weekend) > > I suspect the PMU has gone South on this new iBook. The battery > indicator shows 100% charge which actually last about 30 seconds while > running on battery. Plug the charger in, it charges from 0-4%, then > immediately indicates 100% charge. I have done the following in > addition to removing/cleaning/re-seating the battery: > > 1. Attempted to reset the PMU, SHT+FN+CTRL+Power.(no reset button on > the this rev.) On restart date and time are correct, expected 1914. I > would say reset was unsucessful. > > 2. Installed OS 9x on a clean partition, booted into 9x, same behavior. > > 3. Plugged the charger into another iBook and satisfactorily charged > it. Charger works fine. > > 4. I have not zeroed out and reinstalled. I did an > erase/partition/jugware install late last week after a mysterious > network problem. > > Anyone have any further suggestions before I call apple Service and > ship the iBook off to Houston and the apple certified trashnichians? > TIA...vDog > > (The horror stories I addressed as a Helper on the Apple iBook > discussion forums depicting service damages leads me to cringe at the > thought.) > > > The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be October 22 > For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of > activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>. > The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be October 22 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
