I wish this had been available before I went through my last fiasco with a dead battery. I might still have a battery that looked like it was actually part of my iBook...Looks like the article was about 3 weeks too late... Fran On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 05:57 AM, Charles Pearce wrote: >> MacInTouch reader Rob Wyatt has a 600MHz white iBook with an >> apparently dead battery. After doing everything he could to >> resuscitate the battery -- reseating it, zapping the iBook's PRAM, >> and resetting the Power Manager -- he booted the iBook into Open >> Firmware by pressing Command-Option-O-F at startup and first typing >> "reset-nvram," pressing the Return key, and then "reset-all."