Re: Motherboard battery problem?

[Bonnie]

I have had this same problem with my beige. I have changed batteries 
and done the disconnect battery and hit reset button thing with no 
change. The only solution that I have found is to NOT turn off the 
power strip. For years I turned off the power strip with no problems. 
It seems to be the situation started when I went to OS 9, and has 
continued through OS X.

Bonnie

On Monday, February 9, 2004, at 10:16  AM, Michael Malone wrote:

Recently, when starting up my Beige, it booted into my OS9 partition, 
instead of OSX (default setting and when it came to the desktop, I got 
the standard "Date and Time is wrong" message. Figuring it was the 
battery, I replaced it, thinking that this would solve my problem.

However........

All of my system is plugged into a powerstrip, that I would turn off, 
once I shut the machine off. Now, if I turn off the powerstrip, it 
loses all of its settings. All of these years I thought that the 
battery was there in case of no power. Was I mistaken?

Everything works fine if I leave the powerbar on, so does this look 
like a battery terminal problem or some other type of problem?

Thank You

Micahel Malone
Beige G3
G4/500
768Ram


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