On Saturday, March 23, 2002, at 10:05 PM, Eagle wrote:
> Since putting the battery in, my clock now stays accurate :) but every
> time I try to switch from LocalTalk to EtherTalk -- EVERY time -- the
> machine locks up halfway through the conversion.
> After this lockup, I can only reboot successfully by zapping the PRAM.
> If I don't zap the PRAM it hangs at "Welcome to Macintosh" -- before the
> progress meter prints, and before any extensions show across the bottom
> of the screen.
That's almost certainly a corrupted PRAM. Mac OS reads the PRAM setting
for the ethernet as one of the first 'visible' extensions. If it reads a
dud reading from the PRAM at this point it'll crash the ethernet driver.
> Oh, and the Asante Desktop EN/SC was tested and works fine on an SE.
> (It's too bad Timbuktu doesn't work in < 8 megs of RAM.) :(
>
> The weirdest part is that this _used_ to work!
That cowboy battery combo sounds very dangerous.
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