Thanks, Harry. I tested my NVRAM battery and it was down to about 3.4 to 3.5v. Changed it. Hope that was the problem. I am running on a cloned HD from my iMac 24 that;s in the shop. Rather than installing it via internal PATA, I am running it by FW800 on a 5 yo PM G4 1.4x2 until the iMac is back, hopefully tomorrow. I'll bet that NVRAM battery is the original; 5 years old.
BTW, I have discovered an interesting phenomenon using the PowerMac. Since I have the new USB2 equipped keyboard from the new iMac, I plugged it into the PM's USB2 port on a PCI aftermarket card. While trying to 'zap the PRAM' or select the startup disk while holding the option key at startup, nothing happened. Plugging it into the onboard USB 1.1 port and all is well. A small thing, but may help someone along the line. I suspect doing this via a USB2 equipped PCI card on a PowerBook would yield a similar result. ctw On Nov 15, 2007, at 1:33 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: Carl, Note the date below. Your computer thinks its 1970. Quite possibly you need a new battery on your motherboard. Harry Thursday, January 1, 19701:35 PMCarl Wimmerctwimmer at mac.com Carl Wimmer ctwimmer at mac.com
