Did you take the battery completely out, wait a few and put it back in? Or try to start it without the battery?
Eric ________________________________ From: spilrules <t...@tomstock.us> To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 2:22 PM Subject: Re: What killed the G4 Powerbook, i.e. is it really dead? thanks for the advice, however it did not solve the problem. It is still dead. Absolutely nothing happens when I push the power button. Battery still indicates full charge. Any other advice? Thanks! On Thursday, March 14, 2013 10:48:03 AM UTC-7, spilrules wrote: 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. -- -- 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.
