Re: [NTLK] swapping between ethernet and wavelan

From: James Nichols (smilr_at_mac.com)
Date: Mon Aug 09 2004 - 13:06:59 PDT


Hmm - then it's probably not the pram battery.

All I can suggest at this point is to go into Energy Saver control
panel / pane and set the hard drive spin-down time to never. Good Luck!

J. Tyler Nichols

On Aug 9, 2004, at 2:01 PM, Rhonda Hyslop wrote:

> Oh, I'm quite certain the battery is dead. Every time I hit the switch
> at the back, I have to re-set the date, memory settings, appletalk
> settings, and reboot.
>
> Based on a bit of careful listening to the hardware during the boot
> sequence, the hard drive sometimes doesn't spin up. Now whether that's
> caused by a dead battery or not I don't know... but it has told me to
> not let it sit idle but on for so long that the hard drive spins down
> and goes to sleep, because that seems to be consistently part of the
> lead-up to the unsuccessful boots :-)
>
> -Rhonda

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