There doesn’t seem to be any danger doing the PRAM reset often other than the hassle and like you said the suspicion that something is bad requiring this.

The only problem I’ve had before and after the Lion upgrade that has been causing me to do a PRAM reset has been bluetooth freezing up. It happens to me several times a month if I’m using bluetooth headset to stream music. The system thinks there is no bluetooth hardware. I find if it gets in that state I have to shutdown and do a PRAM reset….

Then I tried to do CLEAN Lion install as my main book was giving me various problems. could not get it to launch properly (from the Lion thumb drive) to save my life. More trouble shooting and test of different drives when PRAM issue came to light and I got it to load smoothly with alt drive. So…the original hard drive was now suspect. I go out and get new one, load it and first attempt to run Lion install and I get a hang up on install. UGHH…thought we had this beat. Then I went straight to PRAM reset again and violla….smooth install.

So new HD is running and PRAM hint is big deal when you run into Lion on top of lion clean install and having basic launching problems. My concern is to whether or not I now have some more basic problem in the machine that is requiring PRAM resets and if it is going to become an ongoing issue, if that’s even possible and what it might portend??

Nice article and thanks for any feedback. MS