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Lombard PRAM Battery question
Hi,
In the old days, when my Lombard was much younger, when I would swap out batteries with my Lombard in sleep mode, my green light would keep on blinking, and I could then wake up from sleep without missing a beat, and especially without having to restart it.
Flash forward several years. My PRAM battery is dead, etc, if I remove power, not only does it die, but my clock goes back to 1904 or whatever.
Determined to not give up yet on my poor old Lombard(s), I order a new PRAM battery, put it in, and when I go to swap out batteries, it dies....
These batteries were from a reputable source, and my Pismo doesn't have this problem, only my Lombard (I've swapped PRAM batteries). Am I missing something? Was I supposed to reset the power manager too, or something?
TIA,
Charles
P.S. I was about to hit the "post" button, and my 40+ memory started kicking in...wasn't this a sign of a memory problem (computer RAM, not my brain's memory), if your computer didn't stay "slept" while switching batteries, and the PRAM battery was good?
In the old days, when my Lombard was much younger, when I would swap out batteries with my Lombard in sleep mode, my green light would keep on blinking, and I could then wake up from sleep without missing a beat, and especially without having to restart it.
Flash forward several years. My PRAM battery is dead, etc, if I remove power, not only does it die, but my clock goes back to 1904 or whatever.
Determined to not give up yet on my poor old Lombard(s), I order a new PRAM battery, put it in, and when I go to swap out batteries, it dies....
These batteries were from a reputable source, and my Pismo doesn't have this problem, only my Lombard (I've swapped PRAM batteries). Am I missing something? Was I supposed to reset the power manager too, or something?
TIA,
Charles
P.S. I was about to hit the "post" button, and my 40+ memory started kicking in...wasn't this a sign of a memory problem (computer RAM, not my brain's memory), if your computer didn't stay "slept" while switching batteries, and the PRAM battery was good?
Does your main battery charge properly, or is it dead?
Ok, I went in and poked around 3 of my Lombards, and after switching RAM in and out, found out
a) I had one stick of bad RAM
B) my new, whizzy Addonics compact flash adapter drive thingee does *not* support switching out the batteries. It just dies mid-swap.
So, now I can switch batteries on two of the Lombards. I really like the compact flash card drive, so I guess I'll leave that in there and suffer without switching out the battery.
a) I had one stick of bad RAM
B) my new, whizzy Addonics compact flash adapter drive thingee does *not* support switching out the batteries. It just dies mid-swap.
So, now I can switch batteries on two of the Lombards. I really like the compact flash card drive, so I guess I'll leave that in there and suffer without switching out the battery.