[MacDV] Pram Battery--Old news Good Reminder

[Joan Keenan]

Actually we have a G4 tower server that refused to turn on. The light 
would light when you pushed the button, but then go out again. I 
thought it was dead and then remembered it had been dropping the date. 
Just for fun I changed the battery and it worked good as new!
Same thing later happened to another one and the battery was the 
problem!

Joan

On Oct 6, 2004, at 2:27 AM, "Mark M. Florida" <markf at squareblue.com> 
wrote:
>
>
> 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