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iMac G4 has memory loss in PRAM??
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I had a weird experience this morning.
I shut down (not sleep) my iMac G4 800MHz last night and this morning I turned it on again. It booted into MacOS 9 and asked me to register and all the "Welcome" wizard stuff.
So, I cancelled out of it and found my background picture had gone back to the wavy blue lines. The clock was wrong too.
I rebooted into Mac OS X via the startup disk panel and my data all seemed to be intact but still the wrong bg pic and clock time 
Anyone else seen this?
TIA
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i have had my imac start up with a different background picture, but not since i have gotten rid of classic. also when i used to use classic the time would be off by a couple hours. maybe its a bug i'm not sure.
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Sometimes when I start up my new iMac (700 Combo Drive Model) it has the wrong time...and have to keep re-setting it
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Originally posted by macthelastredman:
<STRONG>i have had my imac start up with a different background picture, but not since i have gotten rid of classic. also when i used to use classic the time would be off by a couple hours. maybe its a bug i'm not sure.</STRONG>
Well, I was running Classic when I shut down. I think I've previously either just put it to sleep or shut down Classic first.
I wonder if the clock thing is the different operating systems fighting with each other on occasion 
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Every now and then switching OSes can invoke a PR-zap, but I only thought this happened when you booted with command-X
I'm not exactly sure why, but I've had times where my clock goes out like that (just a LOT more on my bro's imac, every time I turn it on it's wrong.)
I'm lucky I dont use the imac because that little clock is the place I always look (unless I'm playing quake 3) lol
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Originally posted by Mac Zealot:
<STRONG>I'm not exactly sure why, but I've had times where my clock goes out like that (just a LOT more on my bro's imac, every time I turn it on it's wrong.)</STRONG>
My clock has been playing up since we went out of daylight savings.
FWIW, my guess is the NTP server and the local time zone are the culprits ...
[ 04-18-2002: Message edited by: Wardy ]
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