[enk0d]

i am not sure why this is happening or if this is something normal but a friend of mine has a ibook g4 and she is telling me that when she puts in the power cord there is a x on the battery icon supposedly it can't charge so she bought a new battery but the same thing again. Any suggestions ladies and gentlemen?

[bimmerphile]

My bet is the PMU on the motherboard. It does that when it doesn't recognize there being a battery present, regardless of charge.

[bimmerphile]

Have him try the iBook Battery update:

http://download.info.apple.com/Mac_O...teryUpdate.dmg

[pat++]

Make her try this :

boot into open firmware (hold command-option-O-F during boot) and enter the following commands:

reset-nvram
reset-all

[enk0d]

Ok i will let her know hopefully tonight if possible and give you a report on the results in the morning.

If not i will have to wait until tomorrow to let you guys know what the results were and if the problem was solved.

Thanks for all the help.

[N.L]

I'm getting the same problem on my iBook 12 800mHz and have tried both the battery update and the firmware commands...any other suggestions or ideas as to what's going on?

[bleee]

Originally posted by enk0d:
i am not sure why this is happening or if this is something normal but a friend of mine has a ibook g4 and she is telling me that when she puts in the power cord there is a x on the battery icon supposedly it can't charge so she bought a new battery but the same thing again. Any suggestions ladies and gentlemen?

I had the exact same problem with my iBook the problem is resolved with the battery update from Apple released a few weeks ago.

[N.L]

Resetting the PMU seemed to fix it...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.h...num=14449#faq6