[X Newbies] New X user can't keep preference selections

[rbgeiger at optonline.net]

I thought of that myself, but wouldn't the rest of the system preferences like clock time be lost (which it isn't) and default to 1956 or whatever OS X defaults to for a weak battery. 

As an aside, how does one change the pram battery on an iMac?

----- Original Message -----
From: Alex <alist at sprint.ca>
Date: Monday, February 9, 2004 11:03 am
Subject: Re: [X Newbies] New X user can't keep preference selections

> 
> On Sunday, Feb 8, 2004, at 23:10 Canada/Eastern, Vincent Cayenne 
> wrote:
> > If I still had problems at that juncture, I'd consider wiping 
> and 
> > installing from scratch as a time-saving approach...
> 
> If none of Vincent's suggestions work, before doing that, I'd make 
> sure 
> it's not a battery problem. Your iMac DV was manufactured late 
> 1999 or 
> early 2000, and 4 years is about the lifetime of the kind of 3.6V 
> batteries Apple used in those machines.
> 
> f
> 
> 
> 
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