On Sep 28, 2008, at 4:11 AM, Aaron wrote: > Thanks to Dan, moss and Simon Royal for their responses. > > I did finally manage to test my PRAM battery and it's quite strong > -- about 4V according to my meter, which is only a bit inaccurate.
It should be 3.6v and remain 3.6v to the bitter end. It's not the voltage, it's the amperage that's the difference between new and dead. > I don't remember what motivated me to check it, but I decided to try > different RAM configurations, and it seems (tentatively) that one of > my 512-MB sticks may be defective, or perhaps incompatible with the > rest of my RAM. Anyway, my computer seems to be running a lot more > reliably with just the remaining three sticks in it, and 1.5 GB is > enough RAM for whatever I do, although I imagine that switching > between programs may be faster with more physical RAM. Good troubleshooting. Bad RAM is tough to isolate, and causes major problems. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
