Re: 10.9.5 with Random Restarts

Michael,
   With all due respect, you are wrong. A bad PRAM battery will cause problems on a machine that is fully plugged in. They are often subtle and non-repeatable (hence my procedure to diagnose involving over 48 hours), but they do happen. In the past I have fixed problems this way, so I know that this is the case. You may not have seen this, but that does not change things.

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	Karl Kuehn
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> On May 7, 2020, at 2:40 PM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> While this is true, even in the older systems a bad PRAM battery would cause mischief only when the machine was disconnected from all other power (for a laptop, that means adapterless and batteryless; for a desktop, that means unplugged or shut off with the power button, not slept). Otherwise, the Mac will always maintain power to those functions using the non-internal-battery power source. Unless you have a desktop, and unless you explicitly shut it down or have a home power failure, the PRAM battery (where present) will never come into play.

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