Begging the obvious, I know you are a Mac guy for way back, but did you try a NEW battery? Sometimes a bad battery will cause weird symptoms instead of just a bad clock. On Dec 12, 2004, at 6:32 PM, Joel Threatt wrote: > > drive spin. But it did have a normal startup tone. I removed the > battery, > Al Poulin Anger, hate, and revenge are for the devil, forgiveness is for God, proactive self-defense is for the rest of us.