>> Nancy wrote: >> Does anybody know what if anything, in OSX, warns us that the >> internal >> battery needs replacing? > > Peter H wrote: > 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.
The machine in question is a Quicksilver Dual 1GHz, running 10.4.11. I do not shut it down. I just quite all running programs and put it to sleep each night. It is set to wake itself each morning and run some backup routines. After a little checking yesterday, I did discover it had not run the backups for several days. I am assuming it was not waking because of the weak PRAM battery. I have not had any network problems with it. It connects to a router via ethernet cable. This machine runs my cash register and credit card processing software. The credit card software automatically connects itself to the internet each morning when I wake the machine and launch the cash register software. Other than an occasional restart after a software update, that machine is never shut down or even restarted. It is on a large APC battery backup specifically to keep it from needing to be shut down even in a power failure. Nancy --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
