Okay, guilty of not checking things out fully before panicking :) I've had this before. The new white-plug power lead seems to sometimes lose the connection. I have to re-seat the power cord in the power lead and magically the power comes back.
With my magic 1 hour battery, it doesn't take long for a lack of mains power to empty the machine of power. So not only do I have a dying battery, but I have a power cable I can't fully trust. *prepares to pony up cash soon* Hen On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Henri Yandell wrote: > > My previous email was strangely prophetic. Woke up this morning to find > that the powerbook battery indicator flashes on the 1 light and that the > power cable no longer lights up. > > Most problematically, the laptop didn't unsleep and I ended up taking the > battery out to force it to power off. However now it does not power on at > all, and still no recharging light on the power cable. > > Is this what a dead battery looks like? Should a powerbook run without a > battery but with mains power attached? > > Thanks, > > Hen > > On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Lee Larson wrote: > > > On Jan 18, 2004, at 7:54 PM, Henri Yandell wrote: > > > > > I'm wondering what I could have done to make the battery last longer. > > > Whenever in reach of a socket [and without a need to power up the > > > battery], should I have been using my laptop without a battery? > > > > The batteries in most laptops have a finite life, and their clocks > > start ticking as soon as they leave the assembly line. They die after a > > few years, and the only cure is replacement. You can try things like > > resetting the power manager and open firmware. > > > > Here are a couple of Apple's tech pages that you might find useful. > > > > <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42642> > > > > <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14449> > > > > > > > > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > > | be January 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
