Running PB G4 without PRAM board/battery

[Merzie]

A long time ago I disassembled my powerbook cause it had a lot of problems, and I lost the cable that goes to the pram board/battery. THe battery is dead anyways.

I plan on using this machine as a simple "airport express"-esque itunes music player controlled by my ios device with Remote. display is bad, keyboard is bad, trackpad, etc. I will shed the os of anything unneccessary and optimize for shear itunes playback performance and that's it.

Anyways, can I ditch that pram battery board without any real issues?

 

[MacForScience]

A long time ago I disassembled my powerbook cause it had a lot of problems, and I lost the cable that goes to the pram board/battery. THe battery is dead anyways.

I plan on using this machine as a simple "airport express"-esque itunes music player controlled by my ios device with Remote. display is bad, keyboard is bad, trackpad, etc. I will shed the os of anything unneccessary and optimize for shear itunes playback performance and that's it.

Anyways, can I ditch that pram battery board without any real issues?

My guess is it will fail to boot without a PRAM battery or may have startup issues. But I don't know for sure.

Cheers

 

[old-wiz]

There's no way to boot without the PRAM.

 

[Merzie]

Well it's booting fine without the battery and the board (whatever it is) that goes with the battery... just doesn't hold clock obviously.

 

[Jony Mac]

Thats strange...I thought they wouldnt boot without the PRAM

 

[Merzie]

Again, I'm not sure the pram is on this battery board. I would suspect anyways that the computer would overwrite something upon boot if the pram was present.. otherwise it would leave it as it was before.

I would imagine the system woudl have problems over the long term, but I'm only using it for itunes streaming with a power adapter.

idk

 

[4JNA]

no idea on your system, but have a g3 powerbook (pismo) that has not had a pram battery in it for about the last 7-8 years, and works just fine. i put a script to sync the clock in the startup folder, and i've never had a problem.

i think for what you're going to use it for, it will work fine. best of luck.

 

[iThinkergoiMac]

The PRAM is on the logic board. If the battery is not present, you will lose your time every time you restart, that's about it. No harm, really, just annoyance.