Congrats on fixing it, Mike! Capacitors commit suicide more often than do resistors, so you likely have truly fixed the problem, and can look forward to it working for a good long …

For a long time Apple would replace or repair those failed B&W CRTs. A 2-3 years back a friend of mine called about it, as he had read something on Apple Discussions or in …

A few more details will help us, who cannot even see your Mac, to help you. Does '10.2' in your sig. mean Jaguar (OS X v10.2)? Is it 10.2.8 (in About this Mac.)? That is the bes…

PM sent. Let it charge at least 4 hours. It still could have a capacity and internal drop problem, but a full charge will give it the best chance of running the machine. My unde…

But before that, it would not hurt to leave it plugged in even if not properly recognized and see if it gets any gradual charging over several days time-perhaps the gas gauge is ju…

Should the machine show a menu bar symbol that it is plugged in? I seem to remember one on another machine that I ran OSX on. What are the symptoms of a bad power board?

The batteries age by increasing their internal impedance (voltage drop under load) as well as by capacity (amp-hours) loss. They can show a fairly full gas gauge (reasonable no lo…

I am typing this on the G5. After about three hours today, and an hour yesterday, plus two hours at Fry's (They only had one capacitor. The guy had to find the other one. I also ha…

Try the battery in the right hand expansion bay with the machine first running on AC also, and again ignore the status icon and just pull AC power to see if the Lombard switches ov…

Try the battery in the right hand expansion bay with the machine first running on AC also, and again ignore the status icon and just pull AC power to see if the Lombard switches ov…

So your able to fix it? BTW that quicksilver rocks! Thanks again.

I found a seller in the US who has lithium cells with built in protection circuits. I think 18650 and 4/3A are the same - I remember I found him while looking for cells from my ow…

Just an update, I just pulled out another mini DIN-8 to DB-25 male adapter I have from the serial version of the TI Graph Link. It has some pins gone on the DB-25 side, but that is…

and it seems to reset the battery's power manager and gives it a cold-reboot Click to expand... I decided to wipe to drive and install OS9 so I could run the battery reset prog…

It was not a resistor that burned - it was a capacitor. My friend mis-identified it.

Just as an opposing data point: Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 10:49:58 -0600From: Swift Subject: Powerbook G4 Battery Resuscitation I too had a battery that my Titanium Powerbook…

As I recall it only applies if you do not reinstall your OS after the CPU swap. Apparently the L3 is recognized and works just fine if you reinstall.

Hm. I'll have to give that a try then. But I hope you'll forgive me if I try wally's method and the open firmware one first Did you do this on lithium batteries, or the "Inte…

Green/White powder around, probably leakage from the original PRAM battery. Weird... I was bored and keep on pressing the PMU Reset button but it still ignoring me, so I closed th…

there is a way to reset the battery power manager. Take a wire and short both the + and - terminals. It will short out the power manager and reset it. Click to expand... Now,…

Here is a page with a 12 volt mod. However, keep in mind that I have seen it suggested that the Digital Audio G4s do not recognise the L3 cache of Quicksilver processors. However,…

there is a way to reset the battery power manager. Take a wire and short both the + and - terminals. It will short out the power manager and reset it. Click to expand... Now,…

I have another G5 that just sits in my bedroom collecting dust - a Dual Core 2.3 GHz model with PCI Express, that I got for $150 - it freezes up about 10 minutes after you use it, …

Luckily you've got that macbookpro, and USB/SATA adapters so you c an get your data off of the G5 are not that expensive.

While I hope that your cheerful optimism proves out, it may turn out that the burned resistors are a symptom, not a cause. Resistors are pretty hardy, and not generally given to sp…