PRAM battery

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drewsof07

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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?
 
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
 
So isnt it highly probable that if the PRAM battery is dead, the computer might not recognize its own startup disc?
 
That's correct. One of the things stored in Pram is the Startup disk.
 
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