[MacDV] Pram Battery--Old news Good Reminder

[Mark M. Florida]

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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