Reg Whitely wrote:
Dear WAMUGgers
About a week ago my G4 PowerBook 15" 1.67 10.4.8 developed a distressing
habit. It won't run unless the power supply is connected. If I remover
the power, it immediately shuts down and the date/time reverts to 1970.
It may also require a 'forced' restart to get it going again. It has a
new battery, replaced under warranty in December 2006 and
MiniBatteryLogger (a nice app I read about recently to trouble-shoot
wayward batteries), tells me it is close to perfect. I've tried
resetting the Power Management Unit (PMU) as per Apple
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14449 but that made no
difference. Any ideas before I send it off to the Apple Doctor?
Reg
Given that it's forgetting the date I'd say it's got a dud PRAM battery.
(Not sure if these instructions are right for the 1.67GHz model. I'd
suggest finding the official Apple docs, disassembling modern
PowerBooks is not for the faint-hearted).
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Have fun,
Shay
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