Hi, All Compact Macs ( from 128K to Classic II with the exception of the Colour Classic ) can boot without Pram battery installed. Capacitor problems are well known with SE/30 and Classic II. Other Compact Macs don't seem to suffer much from capacitor issues as they don't use SMD capacitors on their logic board ( or almost none to be 100% corrrect ).
If you have to leave it on for 5 minutes or so before it boots and power off/on again then your logic board or Analog board has faulty capacitors. This has nothing to do with the PRAM Battery. The Pram battery is necessary in the Colour Classic, most of the Performa's, The Mac II series, Imacs, ... So where you can soft-start the computer from the keyboard. Without good Pram battery: these systems are dead. Also I don't see why you should make things difficult to replace the Pram battery by something else: it's standard 1/2 AA battery. Almost every good electronics shop carries these for less than 8US$ at most, you also easily find them on Ebay. Regards, Nico ---------- On Apr 25, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Christian Wacker wrote: > > 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? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
