Craig, If your battery and backup battery is "dead' you may have to reset the power manger by removing the backup battery first.
Try these steps: 1. remover the main battery 2. lift off the keyboard (bronze keyboard) 3. remove the cable from the backup battery on the motherboard. The cable is slightly to the right of the centre, and from memory it's white, red, black (I think) 4. let the system sit for about 10-15min 5. reset the power manager 6. connect the backup battery 7. connect main power adapter 8. power on the Powerbook, and with a bit of luck you could be back on up again. Cheers, Peder on 12/7/05 7:02 PM, Craig Ringer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi folks > > I have a PowerBook G3 (Bonze Keyboard, FireWire) borrowed from work that > I was hoping to drop Mac OS X onto and use for a slow-but-working Mac OS > X build tester for the development work I'm doing. > > Unfortunately, the dratted thing won't boot. Even when the AC power is > plugged in, it is entirely dead to the world. The battery status button > does nothing, the power button does nothing. I've tried resetting the > PMU as per the Apple knowledge base (this machine has a simple button on > the back to do it) and have had no luck. > > It's been sitting idle for a long time - over 9 months. If the backup > battery has run down, does that mean the system needs servicing before > it'll even boot? (If so, permit me to grumble at Apple). > > Ideas? > > -- > Craig Ringer > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
