[MacDV] Pram Battery--Old news Good Reminder

[Mark M. Florida]

Just curious -- what kind of machine was it?

- Mark

On 10/3/04 9:23 PM, John Collins at johnccollins at comcast.net wrote:

> I had major problems today--had been doing a lot of video work with
> large internal drives and began having problems-- major slow downs,
> spinning beach ball, sluggish at everything, could not restart to
> primary drive. To make a long story short, I tried everything--Disk
> Warrior, Tech Tool Pro, etc with no success. I couldn't get anything to
> work right. I had decided that I had a bad HD on an ATA PCI card and
> that was the problem. I was all set to pull out the drives and go about
> the process of elimination to find the problem.
> 
> Needless to say I was not looking forward to it when I noticed the
> clock was wrong. So I pulled an old Pram battery out of a 9600 and as
> you can guess all problems were gone.
> 
> So reminder to all of what I have learned on the list many times. But
> this is my first experience with a bad battery.
> 
> John in Tucson