My MacBookPro2,1 (late 2006 IntelCore2Duo) has been doing odd things on its own on restarts usually since I upgraded to Lion OS X 10.7.5 which is the last one its architecture will accept. Using coconut battery I decided it might be a power problem as the health dropped down pretty far this last year and the Service Battery notice came on. I came upon a weird trick that seemed to increase the health rating. I use the HDMI jack and a wireless keyboard so I can stand while computing. The display set to mirroring. When the top is closed on the laptop there is an entirely separate desktop arrangement on the highdef monitor. This works well as LCD screen is failing-- full of lines, degraded color & resolution. But there's some kind of system difference when the laptop cover is up as well: When the cover is down if I pull he magnetic adaptor connector out the computer either sleeps or hibernates. Won't work off the battery. If I raise the lid when I pull the connector off the system continue to run normally. As the battery charge runs down at about 85% charge I can reconnect the adaptor and like magic as the charge increases he "current capacity" increases sometimes as I monitor it with the "coconut battery" app. Of course I got tired of this and decided to replace the battery. After I did so I had read that recalibration was necessary so I did it with a five hour wait time before full recharge with the computer off. It took over 8 hours to turn the light green. And when I turned it on the capacity was down further than the battery I replaced! Got another charger. No difference.:
COCONUT BATTERY 2.8-BETA
Age of battery: 2 weeks
Current charge: 3847 mAh
Max. charge : 3847 mAh
Current Capacity: 3847 mAh
Batt Load Cycles: 5
Design Capacity: 6600 mAh
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COCONUT BATTERY 2.8-BETA
Age of battery: 2 weeks
Current charge: 3847 mAh
Max. charge : 3847 mAh
Current Capacity: 3847 mAh
Batt Load Cycles: 5
Design Capacity: 6600 mAh
thanks for reading my post.
jmattv