[MacDV] Pram Battery--Old news Good Reminder

[R B Williams]

Dead Pram batteries have prevented booting ever since the Mac LC (remember
the pizza box?) That little battery has to help the computer remember what
it is you know, otherwise it thinks it's a toaster. . .

Seriously, when we opened the Mac side of our computer repair in '92, 1 of 6
systems simply needed that little battery or a cuda reset.

RB


Joan Keenan wrote:

> Actually we have a G4 tower server that refused to turn on. The light
> would light when you pushed the button, but then go out again. I
> thought it was dead and then remembered it had been dropping the date.
> Just for fun I changed the battery and it worked good as new!
> Same thing later happened to another one and the battery was the
> problem!
>
> Joan
>
> On Oct 6, 2004, at 2:27 AM, "Mark M. Florida" <markf at squareblue.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Honestly, a bad battery wouldn't cause problems until you pulled the
> > plug
> > out of the wall...  And usually the problems only involve the system
> > clock,
> > boot drive prefs, and video settings.
> >
> > If there are "too many HDs" in it, there may be a heat issue and
> > pending
> > hardware failure...  Maybe you could move some drives to external
> > FireWire
> > cases?
> >
> > - Mark
> >
> > On 10/4/04 9:42 PM, John Collins at johnccollins at comcast.net wrote:
> >
> >> Mark--
> >> It is a G4 dual 800 with too many HDs and max RAM. So far it hasn't
> >> missed a step. I have ordered a new battery to replace the old one I
> >> put in.
> >>
> >> John in Tucson
> >> On Oct 4, 2004, at 8:52 AM, Mark M. Florida wrote:
> >>
> >>> 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
>
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