Monthly Archive for January, 2005

I think I'm going to have to get my 12″ PowerBook (purchased February 2003) repaired… Recently, it has decided to just die when the battery level reaches 30%. Plugging it in then shows 0% charge on it. *sigh*

I initially thought it was a problem with the battery (the machine and batteries are two years old), but I swapped it for the other one, and the same thing happened, at the same battery level.

Given the number of threads covering this, it seems I'm not alone (and by far not the worst affected, fortunately).

One user reported success by draining the battery completely using a brand new user account. I tried this, but the computer went to sleep shortly after hitting the 30% mark.

I tried resetting the PMU today, and had slight success, but after draining, the battery only charged up to 70% (oops). It did drain all the way to 0%, however, and lasted about 10 minutes after that. After charging it fully and draining it again, it died at 30%. Argh!

So… it looks like i'll have to do a backup of the machine on Wednesday night and take it to MacCentric in Chatswood on Thursday night. I hope they can fix it quickly, as I'll be without a machine at home until (if) it's repaired.

What a pain.