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

[Dave March]

I'm not one to blame hard drives without cause, but
neither am I inclined to suspect the battery right
off.  My iMac ran fine with a bad battery for years. 
I even ran it with NO battery for several months.  Of
course, if I unplugged it, it always forgot the time
and date.  But other than that, I never had any
trouble with crashy startups, or any boot-ROM/RAM or
related glitches.

It outlived its share of hard drives though!  But in
this case -- though I dissent tentatively on the
battery issue -- I would need a lot more info before
accusing the drive itself.

Great reference links, BTW!  Thanks.

--DKM


--- Philip J Robar <philip.robar at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 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
> 


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