Charlton Woolford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The battery menu has a cross over it and after shutting down, taking 
> the battery out, reinserting it and then restarting the ibook. The 
> battery will still not be recognised.
> 
> The ibook is 800 Mhz G3 [bought December 02] 640 Mhz of RAM

After resetting the power manager [1] - have you had an opportunity to
test a known-good battery in it?

If you regularly use it unplugged, your battery would be nearing the end
of its useful life anyhow, but this test should tell you a bit more.

Lara

[1] http://urth.acsu.buffalo.edu/~pld/Labstuff/powermgr.html#ibookusb