Powerbook 12" charges, calculates, charges

[Karatehero]

My powerbook 12" is being odd. It is doing this strange cycling thing where it charges the battery for a second, the screen dims like it was unplugged, recalculates the battery charge time, starts to charge, the screen dims, recalculates....

I reset the PDU by hitting shift-crtl-option-power and it didnt' seem to do anything. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!

 

[Pentad]

Could the battery be bad? I'm just throwing out ideas...

Can you swap the battery with another (a friend) and see if it does the same thing?


Good Luck!
-P

 

[iThinkergoiMac]

Or just take out the battery and do the same thing... try swapping the AC adaptor too.

 

[Karatehero]

You know whats weird - it just stopped doing it. It just stopped changing states and rebooted and that was it. I rebooted a bunch of times and tried everything I could think of, but nothing helped. I guess it just needed some R and R.

Thanks for the replies - I'll let you know if it misbehaves again! Its such a nice machine, I hate to ditch it.