On May 30, 2008, at 1:49 PM, Paul Moortgat wrote: > Later I could talk to a repair guy and he told me that it doesn't > matter if the battery is dead or not. Not anymore. This was in > the old days. Is he right? Beats me. I haven't heard anything like that. I guess we will know in three or four years. It certainly is still the case for G4 and G5-based computers judging by the number of users I've heard from with dead PRAM batteries in those machines.. ___________________________________________ Randy B. Singer Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions) Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html ___________________________________________