At 01:37 AM -0500 11/20/2005, chris wrote:
At 12:09 AM -0500 11/20/2005, Charles Martin wrote:
Forgive my brusqueness, but what the hell is wrong with you?
Why are you risking your data for something that will cost you
about $11 and a few minutes of your time to fix?
Risking what data? At no time is the data on a Mac, ANY Mac, ever in
danger of being damaged or lost because of a dead battery.
hum. Charles' wording notwithstanding, he's sure speaking my mind.
A low/dying PRAM battery means that the data in the PRAM is
unreliable. Depending on the way the battery is dying means that
settings change randomly. There's a lot more to the PRAM than just
the default boot point and AppleTalk's port. Unreliable boots make
for crashes that occur in mid-write on your HD. And that causes data
corruptions...
I've seen it on two different Macs in the past year... People that
lost all their data for want of a $6 battery. Yea, I griefed 'em
about doing backups. sigh.
Another issue: Dead batteries sometimes leak. Get that stuff on
your motherboard and the physical damage spreads. Saw that just last
week in a 7300.
- Dan.
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