Q: Magsafe Red Flash
I've had my macbook for about 5 weeks now and im really enjoying it, but about a week ago my AC adapter started playing up.
Now when i plug it into my Macbook, instead of instantly turning amber to charge/green to power, it just faintly flashes red and does not charge.
However the charger cannot be broken, because if i leave the macbook turned off with the red flashing charger plugged in, eventually (several HOURS later) it will flick onto amber and begin to charge.
I dont live anywhere near to an apple store, can anyone shed some light??
thankyou.
Now when i plug it into my Macbook, instead of instantly turning amber to charge/green to power, it just faintly flashes red and does not charge.
However the charger cannot be broken, because if i leave the macbook turned off with the red flashing charger plugged in, eventually (several HOURS later) it will flick onto amber and begin to charge.
I dont live anywhere near to an apple store, can anyone shed some light??
thankyou.
Macbook, Mac OS X (10.4.8)
Posted on Oct 17, 2006 8:00 AM
by Michael Tirta,Solvedanswer
Mine is flashing red for a couple second before it turn to amber and start charging the battery, and I assume that period of time and red flashing is when the power adapter try to get connection and communicating with PMU and estimating the battery juiced for whether it should turn to amber and charge it or turn green if the battery is fully charged.
But if yours took hours for it, maybe you got faulty power adapter of faulty communication between adapter and PMU, try reset PMU before you turn that macbook and or poweradapter to apple store.
Good Luck.
But if yours took hours for it, maybe you got faulty power adapter of faulty communication between adapter and PMU, try reset PMU before you turn that macbook and or poweradapter to apple store.
Good Luck.
Posted on Oct 18, 2006 10:09 AM