I thought that they at least had a capacitor to keep the time while changing batteries???
I've never changed the battery in my ibook (since I don't have an extra) Brian O'Neal On Apr 26, 2005, at 5:29 PM, Ward Oldham wrote: Hey Beth, ibooks do not have internal pram batteries.? Your only recourse is to perform a logic board reset and/or zap the pram.? If neither does the trick, the replacement of the logic board comes next. Ward Ward Oldham, MacDude MacTown 1041 Bardstown Road Louisville, KY ?40204 502-485-1243 ward at mactown.us http://www.mactown.us On Apr 26, 2005, at 5:03 PM, Beth Phillips wrote: > I have a friend that has an older ibook running Mac OS X (Jaguar, I > believe). I haven?t dealt with these models much and didn?t see > anything that would help her out. It?s out of warranty so Apple?s not > helping her either. > > Any time she restarts the computer her time has to be reset. If this > were a desktop model I?d say her battery had gone bad, but ibooks > don?t have an internal PRAM battery, do they? Anyone have any > suggestions? I?m going to suggest zapping the PRAM first but if that > doesn?t work what else can she try? > -- > Thanks, > Beth > > Fastline Publications Inc. DISCLAIMER: > This communication is confidential and may be legally privileged. > If you are not the intended recipient, (i) please do not read or > disclose to others, (ii) please notify the sender by reply mail, and > (iii) please delete this communication from your system. Failure to > follow this process may be unlawful. Thank you for your cooperation. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be April 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
