PRAM battery

[drewsof07]

TiBook 1Ghz/60/1gb what exactly does the PRAM battery do before/while the computer boots? having boot problems, no video, no chime...but hard drive. could this be PRAM problem?

[bobw]

Contents of PRAM

Some Macintosh computers may not have all the settings described below. For Mac OS X information, refer to Mac OS X: What's Stored in PRAM?

Status of AppleTalk
Serial Port Configuration and Port definition
Alarm clock setting
Application font
Serial printer location
Autokey rate
Autokey delay
Speaker volume
Attention (beep) sound
Double-click time
Caret blink time (insertion point rate)
Mouse scaling (mouse speed)
Startup disk
Menu blink count
Monitor depth
32-bit addressing
Virtual memory
RAM disk
Disk cache

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=50959

[drewsof07]

So isnt it highly probable that if the PRAM battery is dead, the computer might not recognize its own startup disc?

[bobw]

That's correct. One of the things stored in Pram is the Startup disk.