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From: robertj@Autodesk.COM (Young Rob Jellinghaus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Battery running out on old II
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Date: 4 Mar 91 21:07:35 GMT
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My Mac II was one of the first five or so that arrived on my
campus after Apple started shipping them.  Never had a problem
with it.  But one thing that I heard back then was that the
PRAM was powered by a lithium battery which was soldered to the
motherboard, and was supposed to be good for at least five years.

Well, recently I've been losing my PRAM settings.  Every time I
power off, if I leave the machine alone for more than a day,
it comes up with the blinking-question-mark-on-the-disk icon
when I start it up again.  I boot from a floppy, reset the PRAM,
and restart, and bam it boots from the hard drive again.

Anyone have any suggestions as to the best/cheapest way to fix
this?  It's not crippling, just really annoying.




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