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

[Ken Poppers]

My battery is dead in my DV SE and the only time I lose a setting is 
when I unplug it.  All I lose is date and time.
On Feb 9, 2004, at 8:16 AM, rbgeiger at optonline.net wrote:

> 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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