At 6:11 PM +0200 4/8/2009, bo bengtsson wrote: > >Turn it off, how many minutes?
If the machine is plugged in, then it should maintain the trickle to the PRAM. The battery power is only used after the machine is unpowered (unplugged) and the power supply's capacitors run down. >What is PRAM Macs have a small chunk of programmable / non-volatile random access memory (PRAM/NVRAM) on the motherboard. It's used to maintain certain system settings - like from which disk volume to boot from. When main power is not available, it's kept "alive" by the PRAM Battery (1/2 AA 3.6 lithium) (also called a Backup Battery in some models). >I turn´d it off tree times , it remembers clock all right. Mac OS X has an ntp daemon that keeps the system time up-to-date by fetching a fresh time stamp from an atomic clock. That means the 'ole trick of noticing the system time is foo only works if the machine cannot talk to the 'net. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
