Re: What's in a PRAM...

On 2002-04-06 5:54, "Gregg Eshelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Joost van de Griek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The time of manufacture and the hours-of-use counter aren't cleared with a >> normal PRAM zap. They can be cleared only by a "deep zap", [...] > > Let a vintage Mac sit around

Re: What's in a PRAM...

--- Mark Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday, April 5, 2002, at 01:57 PM, the pickle > wrote: > > > At 12:38 +0100 on 05/04/02, Mark Benson wrote: > > > >> clear the only sustained RAM on the computer? You > can't keep it hard > >> coded on a ROM, you'd have to do them one at a > time o

Re: What's in a PRAM...

At 19:54 -0800 on 05/04/02, Gregg Eshelman wrote: >Let a vintage Mac sit around for a month or so with >a dead or missing PRAM battery and the manufacturing >date and hours of use will go *poof*. It definitely doesn't take that long :) the pickle FAQ Software Ar

Re: What's in a PRAM...

--- Joost van de Griek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The time of manufacture and the hours-of-use counter > aren't cleared with a > normal PRAM zap. They can be cleared only by a "deep > zap", which can be > administered by tools like TechTool, for last resort > troubleshooting > purposes (TechTo

Re: What's in a PRAM...

On Friday, April 5, 2002, at 01:57 PM, the pickle wrote: > At 12:38 +0100 on 05/04/02, Mark Benson wrote: > >> clear the only sustained RAM on the computer? You can't keep it hard >> coded on a ROM, you'd have to do them one at a time or at least a days > > Wlll...you *could* do a flash ROM..

Re: What's in a PRAM...

On 2002-04-05 13:38, "Mark Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday, April 5, 2002, at 08:53 AM, David Wood wrote: > >> It's been years since I had an ocassion to zap PRAM on any of my Macs >> and >> that was on my original Mac LC. However, it seems as if I recall that it >> also wiped and

Re: What's in a PRAM...

At 12:38 +0100 on 05/04/02, Mark Benson wrote: >clear the only sustained RAM on the computer? You can't keep it hard >coded on a ROM, you'd have to do them one at a time or at least a days Wlll...you *could* do a flash ROM... the pickle FAQ Software Archive

Re: What's in a PRAM...

On Friday, April 5, 2002, at 08:53 AM, David Wood wrote: > It's been years since I had an ocassion to zap PRAM on any of my Macs > and > that was on my original Mac LC. However, it seems as if I recall that it > also wiped and reset some info about the original date of service (or > manufacture

Re: What's in a PRAM...

On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Mark Benson wrote: > Apple's list of items held in PRAM on 68k machines taken from KBase > article #2238: Thanks Mark, (it all makes sense now ;O ). Anyway, it seems that in some cases, a good zap will help get a good boot, as when I changed the scsi set up on my IIfx incoor

Re: What's in a PRAM...

At 5:15 PM -0700 4/4/02, Mark Benson wrote: >Someone wanted to know what was held in the PRAM ona 68k Mac, here is >Apple's list of items held in PRAM on 68k machines taken from KBase >article #2238: > It's been years since I had an ocassion to zap PRAM on any of my Macs and that was on my origi

What's in a PRAM...

Someone wanted to know what was held in the PRAM ona 68k Mac, here is Apple's list of items held in PRAM on 68k machines taken from KBase article #2238: Contents of PRAM Status of AppleTalk Serial Port Configuration and Port definition Alarm clock setting Application font Serial printer locatio