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