on 06/01/03 00:19, Michael Richardson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello list, > I'm looking at buying a g3 blue and white but the > sellers says the pram battery might need to be > replaced. > 1. What is a PRAM battery? > 2. What does it do? > 3. Where exactly is it located in the computer?
It's a little battery, about half the size of a regular AA battery. It keeps some settings in the PRAM, like which partition to boot from, the number of time the menu item will blink when you select it in a menu, how fast the text caret will flash, etc. Some of those settings are used only in the Mac OS 9 or earlier, not in OS X, though. You can find the battery pretty easily in a B&W, on the motherboard, not very far from the end of the PCI slots, if I recall correctly. -Laurent. -- ============================================================================ Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelin <http://nemesys.dyndns.org> Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] careware /keir'weir/ n.: A variety of shareware for which either the author suggests that some payment be made to a nominated charity or a levy directed to charity is included on top of the distribution charge. Syn. charityware; compare crippleware, sense 2. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
