[Ham-Mac] G4 Battery Test

[Richard Kriss]

My G4-450 AGP has been dropping it time/date. I suspected a bad battery so I
pulled it and it still reads about 3.6 volts.  How do  you know if the
battery is good or bad?  It was replaced last year.

This is getting to be a PIA as I was have the time/date synced to Apple via
the network and my dialup connection keeps dropping out and OSX fails to get
an update and goes crazy.

I just changed back to manual time and will manually use the Network time to
set the clock.  

I don't really know if I have a bad battery or if it was the dial up
connection failure. Mac OSX sucks big time on giving you an alert that the
connection has failed.