On Nov 29, 2008, at 5:43 AM, Nancy Haitz wrote:
> Does anybody know what if anything, in OSX, warns us that the internal > battery needs replacing? Certainly, the machine losing its preferred boot drive would be an immediate indication. A second indication would be the machine losing its preferred network address (if connected to the 'Net through a router, and the network address doesn't begin with 192, and, instead, begins with 168, then in all likelihood the preferred network address is no longer being retained in PRAM). Both of those are checked, and are programmed before the time server can be polled for the current time. On Intel boxes, not necessarily Apple Intel boxes, but ones which are capable ... with help ... of running MacOS X, a weak PRAM battery also causes the mobo to lost all its internal settings, such as boot drive polling sequence (CD/DVD drive, first hard drive, USB memory stick, etcetera), processor speed setting, etcetera. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
