robertj@Autodesk.COM (Young Rob Jellinghaus) (03/05/91)
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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