[iBook] ibook charging question

[Brian Pearce]

> Thanks for the suggestion.  Unfortunately, reseting the power 
> management
> system did not fix the problem.  Charge still stops at 88%.  Do you 
> think it my
> be my charger?  It has a bit of duct tape wrapped around the computer 
> side
> plug, indicating that it may have (probably has) been damaged.

I don't think the charger has any "smart" circuitry -- that's all in 
the battery itself, or the iBook -- so I can't imagine the charger 
would be the problem. It does sound like the problem should have been 
corrected by resetting the power management circuitry, and I'm at a 
loss as to why that didn't work.

You might want to try running the battery down and bringing it to an 
Apple retail store, and see if they'd be willing to charge it for you.

BRIAN/bpearce at cloud9.net
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