Power management on iBook acting flaky?

[Neben Kabon]

After considering all the alternatives, I decided to fork out for the
extended warranty ($237 for students)... Ack!  It looks like a new
battery (at least from Apple) is $129!  My original warranty runs out
this weekend.

Tony K.

On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 11:54, Jason Gilbert wrote:
> On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 01:05:58AM -0400, Neben Kabon wrote:
> > I have been noticing that the power management on my iBook has been 
> > acting irregular.  Since my iBook is 3 days from being... out of 
> > warranty, I called Apple, who were of course encouraging me to purchase 
> > an extended warranty ($200+).   And to avoid being (charged) for a 
> > service call (Uhm... $49 while under warranty), they suggested I look 
> > into the Knowledge-base on Apples site and it gave me instructions to 
> > reset the power management unit.  It appeared to be working O.K. in OSX 
> > afterwards, but tonight I booted into YDL 3.0 and within about 30 
> > minutes went from a battery of ~85% to 0% and it shut down.  I 
> > restarted in OSX and it shows 0% battery.
> > 
> > Has anyone been experiencing something similar?
> 
> I had similar problems I think.  I ended up replacing a battery, which worked
> temporarily.  Then evenutally, it degraded to where I couldn't even boot
> cleanly.  It was still under warranty so I shipped it back to apple through the
> local reseller and they ended up replacing the motherboard and harddrive.  I
> would say try and find the closest apple authorized reseller/service center and
> take it there.
> 
> jason
> 
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