My Reply follows quote. On 24/12/2002 17:24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (flawed jai) >DING! LIGHTS GO ON! >thanks for saying that. >'if the mac is left unplugged, iit does drain the PRAM battery....' > >MAY BE, JUST MAYBE, THE REASON MY 6360 isn't spinning up and seeing the >hard drive, could be because by brother in law unplugged the machine and >put it in his closet for awhile before he handed it to me, and the PRAM >is dead???? > >hmmm. possible? >I replaced all the other PRAM batteries in my macs as soon as i found >them. it never occurred to me to do it with this, probably because i >havent made that association with this new kind of battery yet. > >ok-it couldn't 'hoit'--where does a person in a major metropolitan city >get a 4.5v square alkaline battery for a mac PPC motherboard? >radio shack or is there a better price? ------------- Well, if the PRAM battery dies in the 6300 series, the usual symptom is loss of time keeping and other PRAM settings. But you should be able to get one at a Radio Shack. Battery Exchange also has them.
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