[MacDV] Pram Battery--Old news Good Reminder

[John Collins]

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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