Hi,
> What it sounds like is that for some reason your
> Mac is not correctly reading the monitor sense
> information at start-up. First, you are powering
> on the Monitor first, then the computer, right?
Yes.
> Second, does your clock keep time when the computer
> is shut down.
That's a very good question. Since I haven't actually
shut it off for so long, I don't know whether or not
it keeps time when shut off. I've had it running
almost constantly for months now, just letting it
sleep instead of shutting down. It's probably been
off a grand total of maybe, oh, a couple days in the
last 3 months or so. Probably not enough time to
where I'd notice any clock discrepancies.
You know, though, that might explain another mystery -
ever since I got this computer, Retrospect Express
always complains every time I first start up the app,
telling me that the date/time is set wrong which it
isn't, at least not obviously so - I check it each
time and it looks fine, and besides I have never
scheduled anything with that app, I just do the
Immediate backup to another hard drive, instead,
because I find it more convenient. But maybe it was
sensing something, somehow, that the clock was amiss
somehow. I don't know what it was comparing it to,
though; I'm not online when running that app - maybe
it's so sensitive that it picks up even nanoseconds
wrong or whatever.
I wondered about that for a long time, but since every
time I checked the clock/date it seemed fine, I
somehow arrived at the conclusion that since I'd
transferred the Retrospect Express app (and maybe its
prefs, too, don't remember now) from the older, slower
computer, I thought Retrospect was just getting
confused somehow, expecting to see the slow old
computer (that I'd first used it on) instead of the
faster new one, and was mistakenly thinking the Mac's
clock was wrong because the app had started up so fast.
Retrospect Express used to take a longer time to start,
on the other machine.
> If not, you need a new PRAM battery.
So that's the differentiating thing then - I didn't
know that. Somehow I had gotten the notion that as
long as it was keeping time at *all* that the battery
was okay, I didn't realize the Mac had to be shut off
to reveal battery problems. I must have remembered
that wrong. I appreciate the tip!
Well, this is looking better, then, because that opens
up the possibility that maybe the battery's the culprit,
after all. I had previously thought that was not possible,
since the clock seemingly still works right (possibly
due to my leaving the computer run all the time).
It's certainly a cheerier possible diagnosis than some
of my earlier ideas! (And probably a lot more economical
to fix, too).
> The next thing I would suggest would be to
> download 'Tech Tool Lite' (the free version) and
> run a PRAM Zap.
The TechTool PRAM zap was one of the very first things
I did, actually. Have repeated it several times since.
> If that does not work, I would suggest replacing
> the PRAM battery anyway.
That sounds like the thing to do.
> Beyond that, I might suggest purchasing a monitor
> adapter that has switches on it so you can set the
> sense codes being supplied to the computer to
> match your monitor's capabilities.
Now that's something I don't know anything about, but
will try the new battery first. I hope that will cure
it! Thanks again!
I very much appreciate everyone's help. Now I have
some new clues to investigate!
:)
Jamie Marie - now going to go cruise around and
investigate battery options
.
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