Re: [Blind-sysadmins] System loosing date

Sorry for the double post, but make sure that you've oriented the battery correctly when you put it in - it will fit in any way and it won't explode if its installed incorrectly or anything, it just won't work. This is actually the one bit of hardware related stuff that I haven't come up with a solution for. Cheers, Ben. On 3/21/12, Ben Mustill-Rose wrote:

Perhaps try a bios flash? I have a dimension like this where regardless of what battery I put in it it still loses the date & time if its unplugged for the shortest amount of time; its a socket 478 so I don't really want to buy a new mobo for it which is what the problem is in this situation.

Cheers, Ben.

On 3/21/12, David Mehler wrote:

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Hello,

I'm dealing with a rather perplexing problem, at least I do when I get over to the box. An xp home machine keeps loosing it's date. It was doing some other stuff, like loosing it's boot order and atempting to network boot, so the CMOS battery was replaced, and that problem went away that is the problem of the network booting. Now in windows (not the system setup it knows it's date), sometimes it thinks it's date is like I just checked it Monday December 31 2001, 11:15 p.m. when the time was actually 8:15 p.m. or there abouts. Other times I've been told it thinks it's date is October 28 2065, I've never heard of a machine jumping forward in this instance. If anyone has any suggestions I'd appreciate them.

Thanks. Dave.

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