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Is my internal/backup battery on Macbook dead?
pfgpowell
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For the past few weeks, my 2007/8 13in white Macbook has been behaving a little oddly. It won't boot up, but the screen is dimly flickering. I google a bit and came across power management reset. I have done this a few times and eventually got the laptop to boot up. But now it won't anymore. I wonder whether the small, coin-like battery computers have is dead. Could this be the case? If so, could I attempt to replace it myself or do I have to shell out shedloads of dosh to get some Apple techie to do it? I have been looking on the Apple support website and YouTube but so far I haven't been able to come up with anything which might assist me, so all good advice is welcome.
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At that age the CMOS battery is probably reaching end of life so if they have to dive into the gubbins get them to swap it out as i still have nightmares of some old apple machines and their soldered in batteries which took about 15 mins per machine compared to 2 mins for a normal machine