Well... it doesn't have a good battery right now, if i remove it, will it boot without me having to have it on for a few minutes before then? could it also not be booting because i put a 250mb hdd in instead of the 40mb one that died?
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Ken Daggett <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 25 Apr 2009, at 09:14:14 PDT, Christian Wacker wrote: > >> but doesn't it still boot even when the battery looses some of its >> voltage? when my classic finally stopped booting because of a bad >> PRAM, it was at only 1.8v left... >> >> If it needs to be 3.7, will an old cordless phone battery work? >> >> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Ken Daggett >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 25 Apr 2009, at 09:05:23 PDT, [email protected] wrote: >>> >>>> I had this crazy idea to take a PC COMS battery (Button cell, 3v, >>>> Lithium Ion) and the holder, and make some sort of gizmo to act as >>>> a replacement battery for the dead PRAM battery in my Classic... >>>> would i risk damaging anything by doing such a thing? >>> ---------- >>> Whenever you reply, the voltage for the PRAM for the Classic >>> needs to be 3.6V. No point in making a replacement that only >>> puts out 3V. > -------------- > Well, I believe the Classic will boot with no battery at all. > It will just lose the parameter settings each time it is > shut off. > > I believe my message said 3.6V, not 3.7. If you want to > try the higher voltage, go ahead. If the magic white > smoke escapes, however, you can't put it back in. > > Ken > http://mysite.verizon.net/res7gt1w/stackomacs > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
