[G4] Re: Dying Sawtooth status was 'Help, I think my Sawtooth

[Philip J Robar]

On Oct 16, 2006, at 1:24 PM, Steve Goldstein wrote:

> But, I'd guess that the drive with OS X is either dead or corrupted.

You're the second person to suggest that Carol has a bad drive or file  
system problems. I don't see how people are making this leap as  
nothing she has said gives any credence to this. To the contrary once  
she rearranged some of the internals of the machine (which causes  
settings to be reset) it booted as expected into all of her partitions  
- until she powered it down, whereupon the booting problem reappeared.  
Sure sounds like a battery problem to me.

Given all the myth and superstitious behavior that goes hand and hand  
with Mac trouble shooting I'd suggest that people make a note of the  
following site:

Mac PRAM, NVRAM, CUDA/PMU & Battery Tutorial: What, When & How?
http://www.geocities.com/texas_macman/pram.html

Apple's Knowledge Base also has trouble shooting guides for various  
problem situations.

Carol, you might want to check out: PRAM Battery Checker at http://www.polar-orbit.com/software.html 
.


Phil