[P1] Battery woes

[Meg St. Clair]

On 8/4/03 7:26 AM, "Stephen Foster" <foster at pop.ca.inter.net> wrote (edited
for length):

> We have an iBook (new last summer) and lately the battery
> occasionally does not hold the charge. After 20-30 minutes it dies
> even though it started at 98 per cent or so. When it comes back from
> the cottage I'll try re-setting the power manager but I seem to
> recall a thread from a couple of months ago that suggested a link to
> a solution to what I think was a similar problem. Thought I'd saved
> it but I lost a lot of archived material when my external hard drive
> said good-bye with nary a click or a cough. If my memory is correct
> (something I no longer guarantee) would someone please re-post that
> information? Thanks.
> Stephen


Well, if you reset the power manager and that didn't work, you may have a
bad battery. That's what happened to me. If it's still under warranty, Apple
should replace it.

Meg
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700 MHz iBook (June 02) OS X 10.2.4
384 meg RAM