On Sunday, April 14, 2002, at 10:22 AM, Kyle Hansen wrote:
> Clark Martin wrote:
>
>> My suspicion is that a lot of times when people zap the PRAM or
>> rebuild the desktop or both it's really the restart that fixes
>> things. But since they zapped and/or rebuilt they assign credit to
>> those actions. This is, I think, why zapping and rebuilding are
>> recommended so often. Yes, they do work in specific cases, just not
>> nearly as often as people think.
>
> Your suspicion is unfounded...
Here here. Hardware problems such as lack of RAM recognition and CPU
card problems in PCI PowerMacs are often solved by CUDA resets. I even
found I had ti ZAP the PRAM in my G3 when I added a hard disk (one
definite advantage SCSI has over IDE!). Rebuilding the desktop takes
time but is generally a good thing to do regularly anyway from time to
time. I find it a necessity when using OS 9 as Classic in OS X as it
seems to have a habit of killing off my desktop file :(.
> <snip>
Did you write *all* that or did you pinch it from an Apple document ;).
> Restarting is not the answer. I personally shut my macs off every
> night when I go
> to sleep and turn them back on again when I need them. I do no
> believe in
> "sleeping" a computer. If you turn your Mac off and unplug it, it is
> safe. If
> you sleep it, it may fall victim to electrical spikes and surges,
> power outages
> or earthquakes.
Unless it's a laptop. I leave my iBook sleeping all the time and give it
a mandatory reboot every week or so (usually when bits of OS X start
seizing because of the huge number of page-outs the poor thing does) and
unplug it from it's mains adapter when it's asleep. I leave an LCIII on
24/7 as my server/router but if it gets fried in a power outage/spike I
son't really care, it only cost �20!
> I ask you this: "would you leave your car idling in the driveway
> all day?" I didn't think so.
You car isn't silent when it's ticking over. My iBook is.
> btw...my Tibook sleeps in the "off" position on my nightstand. I
> guess I am just
> sick.
I have an SE/30 on the shelf next to my bed, does that count ;).
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