[Ham-Mac] G4 Battery Test

Mon, 1 Sep 2003 14:21:43 -0400

If you haven't already, you might want to try some other things that can affect time and date.

First, try resetting the Parameter RAM (PRAM).
Next, if your Mac is not on all of the time, some UNIX maintenance routines may not be running (usually set for early morning). Get MacJanitor or something similar to run these "chron" jobs.
Third, run repair of privliges on your startup drive.
Finally, reset the Open Firmware.

All of these, in increasing order of severity, are part of routine fixes for reluctant OS X Macs.

Good luck,
David
N1EXQ

>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. 
>
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