I now keep it as a home-computer only, plugged in all the time, and while I occasionally reboot it, mostly I just put it to sleep.
It has stayed at 14% for the past month or so. I learned the trick of removing the battery, unplugging the power and holding the power button for 5 seconds to reset it, and that worked-it allowed the machine to boot up once everything was plugged in, and the battery charged up to about 14% (with a ‘battery charging’ icon), then it stopped charging. One day, the machine refused to reboot and I dragged it around on a two-week vacation without using it. Battery level is very low, battery icon shows plugged in but NOT charging. Bought a replacement (again on Amazon) and it worked for a few weeks, then exhibited the same symptoms. Last year, the battery seemed to fail I would regularly run it up and down from fully charged down to 15 percent or less, and it would always recover, but then it only recovered to 50 percent, then 25, and finally it only went up to about 4 percent.
Still, it seemed to work fine for a couple of years (even though I just discovered it’s only 45 watts). The original A/C adapter failed (I thought) so I bought a replacement on Amazon, which showed as having the illuminated ring, but sadly it doesn’t.
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It’s absolutely bulging with expensive software so I don’t want to get rid of it I do desktop publishing using PageMaker which mandates the use of OS9, so I’m determined to keep this old machine running.Ī couple of years ago it started developing problems charging. I have a G4 aluminum powerbook that I bought used from a friend about seven years ago. Hi John-Just stumbled across your website after doing a Youtube search.