Comments | lunesse: just in time

lunesse

just in time

Feb 27, 2005 09:33

The old laptop, even thought DLJ wiped it clean, is almost dead. Now the memory battery seems to have failed, meaning everytime it gets rebooted, it loses the date, time, settings, almost everything in that regard. Getting at it is a real pain, that ibook was not designed to be futzed with, which is why a new hard drive wasn't our answer. You just ( Read more... )

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zind4gi February 27 2005, 18:54:31 UTC

If it's like a PC laptop, there is a little watch battery that needs to be replaced so that the time/date/settings won't be lost. I had that same problem but on a desktop where I had to get a new watch battery for it and that solved that problem.

mediaboy February 27 2005, 19:34:34 UTC

What hindi said. Should be a $5-10 fix.

lunesse February 27 2005, 22:21:22 UTC

it's getting to it that is the problem.

mediaboy February 27 2005, 22:45:37 UTC

Getting to it is also half the fun!

Dissecting laptops... only slightly less exciting than dissecting frogs.

Seriously, CompUSA or any repair shop ought to be able to find the battery pretty easily.

But I say try it yourself. :-)

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pyrrhus February 27 2005, 20:42:58 UTC

you might take the keyboard off and see. sometimes I am amazed at how reasonable some hardware vendors can be..

then tere are other times.....

not the ibook lunesse February 27 2005, 22:21:10 UTC

it's a monster to get inside. 57 screws, or something, to get in where the memory battery is.

Re: not the ibook pyrrhus February 28 2005, 02:56:49 UTC

Yeah Toshiba has some that are the same way.

giantfightbot February 28 2005, 01:44:06 UTC

It's not a horribly expensive part, but yeah, getting to the guts on some laptops is more trouble than it's worth.

The other alternative, of course, is to never ever turn it off or put it to sleep. (Of course, it's not like these laptops are designed to be servers, but it might be fun to look into it!)

There's a guy online who turned his iMac into a rack-mounted server. I wonder if anyone's done that to an iBook?