Dos anyone know the spec/ref of the clock battery on a first gen G5 - I can get one on the way home but forgot to look inside last night.
thx
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eastender dalston@redacted.invalid wrote:
Dos anyone know the spec/ref of the clock battery on a first gen G5 - I can get one on the way home but forgot to look inside last night.
Best to double check inside, some machines use a half aa 3.6 battery, and others use a 3v watch style battery.
If you can confirm iMac / Powermac & speed might be able to confirm which it should be.
Jon B wrote:
If you can confirm iMac / Powermac & speed might be able to confirm which it should be.
It's a Powermac G5 1.6MHz single processor (not an iMac) - the first G5 made I presume. This will keep til i have a look of course although I'm working on it at home tomorrow and I noticed last night it had lost date and time. I seem to recall from other Macs that five years or so tends to be the life of these batteries. The G5 was launched in 2003 wasn't it?
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eastender dalston@redacted.invalid wrote:
Jon B wrote:
If you can confirm iMac / Powermac & speed might be able to confirm which it should be.
It's a Powermac G5 1.6MHz single processor (not an iMac) - the first G5 made I presume. This will keep til i have a look of course although I'm working on it at home tomorrow and I noticed last night it had lost date and time. I seem to recall from other Macs that five years or so tends to be the life of these batteries. The G5 was launched in 2003 wasn't it?
It should be a half AA 3.6v jobbie then. 2003 yes, as I got my G4 just after they'd been announced.