2 Using it without battery. Questions.
So, this week I just got one of these, for free, came without it's battery (that became a spicy pillow) and without it's original charger (that became e-waste and was recycled (I don't have any more details on this)).
Question number one, about using it without a battery.
Do I risk damaging it further or anything else by just using it without it's battery? I can't really afford to buy a replacement at this moment.
I managed to buy a really good (not apple branded) 85w charger and it boots, I'm able to install High Sierra (there's waterfox that still lets me browse the internet, and other stuff) also there OCLP I can mess around. I run a terminal command someone said that lets me see of the CPU is throttling and surprisingly it's not (despite ppl saying it would), well, at least I think it's not, because it says 100% in all marks on the terminal.
Also, another question is about Real Time Clock. I noticed that it keeps messing the time and date every time I unplug it.
It laid sitting in it's previous owners stash for several years without it's battery, do I need to replace an RTC battery? (I'm expert on PC, I don't have a clue on how Macs Work, so for me all devices that have an RTC needs a coin cell battery). So do I need such thing? Because I'm also planning to get it an SSD, 8GB of RAM (%#*@ 1333mhz. I have 4 1600mhz sticks laying on my stash but seems I won't be able to use them because of 2nd gen Intel, not sure though, didn't test) so when gather all parts, I'll be disassembling it to clean, repaste, install new ram, SSD, and if needed, the RTC battery.
Thanks everyone!
Update (04/27/24)
Would this help @danj ?
Bu iyi bir soru mu?
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@liondeolive3180 - Over riding SMC is not smart! You also face the risk of memory & file corruption as the system was not designed to be used in this format. Between the MagSafe connection not being stable and the charger now able to supply the full power some actions require.
Dan tarafından
Well I still don't understand that thing you mentioned about the threads, and I don't really know if it's throttling the system at all.
But the charger is 85w.
The system as is, from what I read is designed to drain up to 65w. So I don't really think it's underpowered at all.
I had to use open core to bring this device to Bigsur at least because otherwise it's basically a paperweight, and it had this option, was the only thing that wasn't default activated.
lion.lorena tarafından
@liondeolive3180 - if you where not overriding SMC then the issue I was talking about would be an issue. As you hadn’t spoken about which OS or how the default OS would be limited by SMC CPU Safe Mode being enabled.
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Now I'm using BigSur and I have enabled the mod. It's performance seems the same, so another hint that it wasn't throttling before.
lion.lorena tarafından
@liondeolive3180 - Sure that makes sense! As once set you need to flush the SMC settings. Again, you’re running the system in a way it was not designed to do for use.
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