At 3:40 PM -0800 4/5/01, Ethan Benson wrote:
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 05:28:14PM -0500, Kevin van Haaren wrote: > At 2:06 PM -0800 4/5/01, Ethan Benson wrote: > >i am curious as to why these powerbooks don't have a small lithium > >battery to solely maintain the clock when the main batteries fail? > > Not just when the main batteries fail, i've had it reset on my iBookwhen I've had to reset via the little reset button at the top, uncool when I didn't catch before sending a bunch of e-mail.does that happen consistently?? that is sooo broken gah.
not sure if it's consistent. i've only had the date reset on my ibook twice. once about 8 months ago when i left it unplugged and the battery drained. the other was 2 nights ago when I locked up OS X something fierce and could only reboot by using a paper clip to hit the hidden reset button up by the monitor.
I really don't want to test at the moment, but i'm planning an upgrade to a larger hard drive (3GB sucks) and more memory in a couple of months. I may hit the reset a few times just to see what happens.
kevin