Lombard battery and OS X (was Re: Lombard hard drive upgrade

  1. H.B. Elkins - 14 October 2006

    On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:28:32 -0400, Salamander wrote:

    Now the only problem is that the battery status box had an "X" in it showing "no battery" even though the battery is physically present.

    I have an old Lombard with the stock 6 GB drive in it, and if I put a larger drive in it I know it would be a serviceable machine for several things.

    However, when I installed OS X (can't remember which version but I think it was 10.3), OS X did not see and would not charge the battery. The thing will not run under battery power under OS X at all. However, the battery charges fine and the computer will run on battery power under 9.2.2 which was already installed. What gives with that?

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  2. John Johnson - 14 October 2006

    You reset the PMU and all that stuff?

    Later,
    John

    johajohn@indianahoosiers.edu

    'indiana' is a 'nolnn' and 'hoosier' is a 'solkk'. Indiana doesn't solkk.

  3. Clark Martin - 15 October 2006

    Make sure to run all the OS updates to bring it up to 10.3.9. IIRC there was a problem with some version of OS X that had charging problems on some Macs. Later updates cured it.

    Clark Martin
    Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting

    "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway"

  4. H.B. Elkins - 26 October 2006

    On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 03:20:56 GMT, John Johnson wrote:

    You reset the PMU and all that stuff?

    10-4, didn't help.

    The other post about upgrading the system might help, but I have to use a specific lower version of the OS in order to make use of my USB wi-fi dongle. The DLink dongle is not compatible with system versions above 10.x.3, I think.

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