hello marc,
believe it or not, it's worked! i should have pointed out (doesn't seem to
have made any difference in this case, which is cool!) that the PB is a G3,
but the same procedure has worked.
thanks to that - i'll contact mike and tell him what's happened.
cheers,
jake
on 28/8/01 8:34 pm, Marc van Gemert at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Jake, I've looked it up for you, here's the story from Mike from xlr8yourmac:
>
> "Request for Info - How to Remove/Disconnect the PowerBook G4 Internal
> Battery:
> I had the firewire ports on my PB G4 suddenly stop working (even firewire
> target disk mode does not work) I saw a similiar problem with the G4/Cube
> which was fixed by removing the internal battery for several hours. However I
> can't find where the internal battery is on the PB G4 (apple lists a part
> number for it - but no info on where it is or how to remove or disconnect
> it).
> I tried resetting the power mgr, resetting the nvram via open firmware,
> zapping the pram, etc. - no help. (Same thing on the Cube - only removing the
> internal battery helped to restore working firewire ports after this
> happened.) I even tried removing the bottom cover and disconnecting any
> connectors that looked like they may be from a battery - no help.
>
> it may be the firewire ports are DOA, but if anyone knows where the battery
> is (internal backup battery) please let me know
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=PB G4 Internal Battery>. Thanks"
>
> URL: http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/archives/aug01/082701.html#S12465
>
> HTH,
> Marc
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> Mac: B&W G3 400/OS 9.1/512 MB/DVD/ZIP/Maxtor30GB/VOODOO5
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