it's rarely helpful or necessary. unfortunately, it's often touted as a cure all for many ailes. it's only necessary on some machines after adding ram (allegedly, i've never needed it but i don't have that many models of mac), or, at least on a 7100, after adding a cache card or putting in a larger cache card, and apparently after adding certain hardware on some machines. it doesn't hurt anything, other than having to reset a bunch of things to the way you want them and resetting the clock, and the fact that it also resets the hours of use to 0 (which hardly matters for most people, few care about having actual power on time recorded).
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