[Ti] TiBook Will Not Boot Unless Reset

Bob Fowles rbf at psu.edu
Tue Feb 5 14:59:24 PST 2008


In my case, I had a technician check out the reset problem and he 
said it was not the battery which checked out fine. Without more 
detailed analysis, he suspected it was the motherboard.

Bob Fowles

At 1:31 PM -0600 2/5/08, Thomas Fulton wrote:
>just go to ifixit.com.....most likely they will have the battery and 
>the instructions for changing it.....
>
>Tom
>On Feb 5, 2008, at 12:46 PM, Michael Byczkowski wrote:
>
>>The internal buffer battery for the PRAM has ran out of capacity, same
>>happened with my TiBook...
>>
>>The only way to rectify this would be to have this changed by a service
>>technician, as the battery is most likely soldered directly to the
>>mainboard.
>>
>>Will wait for the next update to the MacBook Pro line and then buy one, 500
>>MHz G4 is really not that fast anymore... ;-)
>>
>>Best regards,
>>     Michael
>>
>>
>>
>>on 05.02.2008 15:45 Uhr, Bob Fowles at rbf at psu.edu wrote:
>>
>>>I had the same "Reset Problem"  with my original 500Mhz TiBook. Not
>>>sure when it started - maybe 2004 or 2005. Every start after a
>>>shutdown first required depressing the Reset button in the back. I
>>>didn't find that a major problem because I rarely did a shutdown.
>>>When my Firewire port became non-operational in June 2006, I bought a
>>>used 500Mhz TiBook and I haven't had the "Reset Problem" with that
>>>one.
>>>
>>>Bob Fowles
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