someone wrote:
>> The battery could be shot.  There is a discharge utility you could try.

and Tom Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied:
>There is NO discharge utility (or any other kind of reconditioning 
>utility) for lithium ion batteries (which is what the 3400 uses). When 
>they're dead, they're dead, period.
>Attempts at rejuvenation invite disaster. There are utlities to 
>recondition NiCd and NiMH cells, but NOT for a lithium ion 
>(at least, not safely).
While Apple's Battery Reset doesn't 'recondition' LiIon batteries, it has 
revived for me several Lombard/Pismo batteries (using a Lombard of 
course.) It also works with the Wallstreet and clamshell iBook models, 
but sadly it doesn't work with PBs 3400/Kanga (didn't in my 3400/9.1 
anyway.)

<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60655>

Dan K


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