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- From: bwilliam@oyster.smcm.edu (Bill Williams)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Re: How do you zap PRAM under Sys7?
- Message-ID: <15179@umd5.umd.edu>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 13:44:08 GMT
- References: <1736@grivel.une.edu.au>
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- In article <1736@grivel.une.edu.au> Martin Levins,
- mlevins@metz.une.edu.au writes:
- >From article <22521@sybase.sybase.com>, by bill@kirkwood.sybase.com
- (Bill McFarland):
- >> What is parameter RAM, why would one "zap" it (what does "zap" mean?),
- how
- >> do you know if you need to zap it?
- >
- >Paramter RAM holds all those things that you don't want to reset every
- >time your Mac gets turned on - time, date etc (and a host of other stuff)
- >
- >To reset: Hold Command-Option -p-r
-
-
- Yes, but WHY would I zap the PRAM? I've only heard of needing to do it
- if there are bizarre things going on (most recently posted of which is
- the "wecome to Mac" mac icon not showing up in color).
-