Hello
I am trying to figure out if I need to buy a new battery for my computer or if something else (much more expensive) is wron.
It's a PowerBook G4--had it for a little over a year, so there's no good reason the battery should be fried, but no reason anything else should be either. What has happened is this: the battery does not charge. It's run all the way down now and I can only run using power cord. When plugged it, it does not charge up. The cord is fine. I have been told it could be the battery...or the motherboard, or the power something-or-other, or some other things. The odd thing is that when plugged in, the light around the end of the power cord is green, as if to indicate a full battery, rather than orange, like when it's recharging. So the cord can't tell that the battery is empty, whatever that means, but I tried another cord and the same problem occurred.
Anyone have any ideas what's wrong? What I'd like to do is make sure it's the battery, and that there's nothing I can do, before buying one. If something else is wrong, I'll just live with always being plugged in. I can't find anyone with a battery I can borrow and put in there to see if I can recharge it. That would be too EASY... I tried to sweettalk a guy at a computer store into doing that, but he said they didn't have any batteries (none in those display models, huh?) and tried to direct me to the customer service pay-100-bucks-just-to-have-us-look-at-it counter). He did have me try restarting it while holding down cntrl-opt-shift (resetting the "power manager," I believe), but all that accomplished was fouling up the date and time.
jrr66
I am trying to figure out if I need to buy a new battery for my computer or if something else (much more expensive) is wron.
It's a PowerBook G4--had it for a little over a year, so there's no good reason the battery should be fried, but no reason anything else should be either. What has happened is this: the battery does not charge. It's run all the way down now and I can only run using power cord. When plugged it, it does not charge up. The cord is fine. I have been told it could be the battery...or the motherboard, or the power something-or-other, or some other things. The odd thing is that when plugged in, the light around the end of the power cord is green, as if to indicate a full battery, rather than orange, like when it's recharging. So the cord can't tell that the battery is empty, whatever that means, but I tried another cord and the same problem occurred.
Anyone have any ideas what's wrong? What I'd like to do is make sure it's the battery, and that there's nothing I can do, before buying one. If something else is wrong, I'll just live with always being plugged in. I can't find anyone with a battery I can borrow and put in there to see if I can recharge it. That would be too EASY... I tried to sweettalk a guy at a computer store into doing that, but he said they didn't have any batteries (none in those display models, huh?) and tried to direct me to the customer service pay-100-bucks-just-to-have-us-look-at-it counter). He did have me try restarting it while holding down cntrl-opt-shift (resetting the "power manager," I believe), but all that accomplished was fouling up the date and time.
jrr66
