I was copying a very large backup file from an external USB HD device and walked away from the computer. Upon returning a couple hours later, it was not running and I tried to remember if I had shut it off or not, pretty sure I had not. I pushed the start button and nothing happened, completely dead. I noticed the power plug connected was not lit green as it usually had been. Battery indicator showed a full charge.
Prior to this, I started to notice that the power cord would not change from the orange color to green when the powerbook was typically finished charging, even though the desktop showed the battery to be charged at 100%. Prior to this, about 3 days earlier, I plugged a USB flash drive in to copy a file to it, and the spinning beachball appeared and after waiting for an eternity and not being able to get the computer to respond at all, I pushed in the power button and held it for a few seconds until it shut down. Upon restart, my dock which is set to appear and disappear would not show up and I had to go to preferences and set it to always appear in order to see it. While doing this I noticed that all of the drop down menus would not highlight as you would scroll the mouse over them or pop open on tabs unless clicked. Tired from a long day, I shut it down and the next day it functioned fine as it used to. Unsure if any of this is related to it now not responding to anything at all. The battery shows a full charge when pushing the indicator button on it. The power cord is not damaged as I have 4 of them and they all work properly and light up with my other functioning 12" powerbook, but not this one, which is: Powerbook G4 1.67mhz, 15", 2 gb ram, running OSX 10.4.11 Any advice is greatly appreciated! -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
