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Article #27407Re: Problems with a Mac II and a Mac Pl
From: gillies
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1988 19:22
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1988 19:22
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Get out a resistor and temporarily short your battery. If you do it
just briefly, you can probably zero the PRAM before you kill the
battery. You probably don't have to lower the voltage to zero to
scrozzle the PRAM, 2.5 volts or lower is probably enough. However, if
the PRAM chip has a capacitor across its power line, maybe you'll have
to short this too.
This is just a suggestion -- I haven't tried it myself. DO IT AT YOUR
OWN RISK. It's probably what your dealer will do to fix the problem,
before he gives up and clips the battery wires.
Don Gillies {ihnp4!uiucdcs!gillies} U of Illinois
{gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu}
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