I have not tried that yet. I'll see what happens later tonight. I have been using Battery Health Monitor in Mac OS X to see the mAh values.

Have you tried Battery Reset?

I have a Pismo battery that went one day from holding a charge for an hour to not taking a charge, the light would not even blink on it. I took it apart and manually (eek!) charge…

...So do I un solder the clamshell batteries to fit the pismo battery board or not. I'm afraid to do that because I do not want to screw something up so bad. Click to expand... …

If you leave it plugged in and off, with the main battery removed, and the motherboard battery plugged in, sometimes you can get a charge into the motherboard battery.

Holy Smokes it works! My gosh, I got it for a steal (literally...well not that I performed anything illegal) cuz it was not powering up. My goodness, thanks readers! Now it needs a…

Also, it might be good to read the firewire section of http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1431 [] ]'>

Find the PRAM battery cable, its on the right side under the keyboard right above the back of where the disk drive ends, its a red and white cable. Unplug the battery and try again…

Would a bad internal battery affect it from starting up? Also I plugged the battery in and it doesn't seem to be charging. I'm tempted to think it's a Power unit issue, just wonder…

try lifting the kbd up, and disconnecting the internal battery. the psu is compatible.

Folks on these forums are so helpful thought I'd get more help... I found a Pismo 500 (awesome, always wanted one) and I didn't have the Yo-yo adapter so I used my 1400c's power a…

Hacking lithium-ion battery packs is not for the uninitiated. Leave it alone. Click to expand... and how do you become initiated if you dont try ? Click to expand... Fra…

What's on the battery "board"? Click to expand... The "battery board" provides control systems for "intelligent batteries". The charging controls monitor voltage, current and t…

and how do you become initiated if you dont try ? Click to expand... I think he means "uninitiated" as "someone who has likely never messed with complex electronics before." I …

Hacking lithium-ion battery packs is not for the uninitiated. Leave it alone. Click to expand... and how do you become initiated if you dont try ?

What's on the battery "board"?

Hacking lithium-ion battery packs is not for the uninitiated. Leave it alone.

Hey, I have a Pismo battery that is shot, but since I have a couple spare clamshell batteries around i thought "their connections are the same, so lets try and do a swap. The fir…

I moved the Rage128 to the slot nearest the IDE connectors and so far it works. On to locating an ATX case to hack up and locating a hard disk larger than 3.2GB...

I don't think the Mach 64 can handle a 66 mhz slot as it's a pretty ancient card. Could the 128 be dead?

I tried it in the slot next to the shortest one. After moving it to the slot nearest the IDE ports the video appears OK on the Mach64 PCI card. The Rage128 card is still not work…

Have you tried the video card in the slower 33 mhz PCI slot instead of the 66 mhz one? My mach 64 wouldn't play nice in the faster slot but was ok in the slower.

The first time the Mach64 video card was used the picture was fine. Now it is garbled. The Rage128 card still shows no video. I did find a Radeon 7000 32MB card that should be fl…

Answer: replace the video card with a Mach64 one.

Shortly after buying my Blue/White G3 the motherboard was replaced with a Revision 2 motherboard. After disappointing results with my Beige G3, I thought I would try to get the or…