MacBook battery dead.

[Skully]

Left my MacBook unplugged for about a week and it obviously ran down.

Went to charge it up and use it and OS X now tells me to replace my battery.

Surely they can't go wrong after a week without charge?

Anyone else had this and what did they do?

It isn't under warranty so I may end up having to pay £100 for a new battery

 

[SeraphX]

download and run coconut battery and it should tell you what condition your battery is in

 

[theheyes]

Let us know how you go on. I have a plastic MacBook that has done exactly the same, only this is the second time it has done it. The first was under warranty so I got a free replacement battery.

Now I'm in the position where I can either cough up £100 for a new battery that might well do the same again, or have a few hundred quid tied up in a rather useless laptop.

 

[Blackhawk47]

Or grab iStat and check the battery using that. I imagine it just needs a good full charge.

 

[Nexus]

I've got a second battery on my old Powerbook, didn't use it for ages and appears to be totally dead. Can't get any charge into it at all.

Anyone know if it's possible to bring it back to life?

 

[sbi5ar]

My battery had a little glitch within about 3 weeks of owning it and a pop up said it needed replacing however it fixed itself and every thing went back to norm.... The people at applecare said it is noted down on my file incase something goes wrong in the future...

 

[Skully]

Hi,

I didn't get chance to try any of the programs suggested but I have left it on charge for 48 hours and nothing has worked.

Sold the laptop now anyway so not my problem! Let the new owner sort it out! (Yes I have told him about the issue!)