Hi, My mom uses a p2 system from 1998/99, running SuSE 8.2 Pro. Suddenly her e-mails started to arrive to me with a date from the past and seemingly the system clock works only, when the computer is turned ON (= is under electricity). I never had such symptom, but thought that when the CMOS battery is empty, the system clock is set to some stran- ge 1970-like time everytime the system is turned on. Maybe I'm wrong, but would help if someone would confirm that the above symptom can be caused by (almost) empty mainboard-battery. Thanks, Pelibali
On Thursday 03 August 2006 21:08, pelibali wrote:
Hi,
My mom uses a p2 system from 1998/99, running SuSE 8.2 Pro. Suddenly her e-mails started to arrive to me with a date from the past and seemingly the system clock works only, when the computer is turned ON (= is under electricity). I never had such symptom, but thought that when the CMOS battery is empty, the system clock is set to some stran- ge 1970-like time everytime the system is turned on.
Maybe I'm wrong, but would help if someone would confirm that the above symptom can be caused by (almost) empty mainboard-battery.
Yes, it's the first thing I'd suspect. I've had similar issues on a couple of machines. The batteries are easy to locate and change - just check that amy bios changes you made are still there after changing the battery. Dylan
Thanks, Pelibali
-- "The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out." (Chinese Proverb)
On 06/08/03 22:08 (GMT+0200) pelibali apparently typed: Sorta the opposite of above, which seems likely to be off by up to 12 hours.
My mom uses a p2 system from 1998/99, running SuSE 8.2 Pro. Suddenly her e-mails started to arrive to me with a date from the past and seemingly the system clock works only, when the computer is turned ON (= is under electricity). I never had such symptom, but thought that when the CMOS battery is empty, the system clock is set to some stran- ge 1970-like time everytime the system is turned on.
Maybe I'm wrong, but would help if someone would confirm that the above symptom can be caused by (almost) empty mainboard-battery.
When the battery dies, all CMOS settings are lost, not just the date/time. When the battery voltage drops enough from old age, CMOS is preserved, but the clock gets slow. Most puters that vintage use a common 3v #2032 pancake lithium cell. I just bought a box of 12 of them, then checked all my systems and replaced those showing less than 3.0v, which was about 80% of them. New ones usually read around 3.2v on my digital multimeter. -- "Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up." Galatians 6:9 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/
Hi, On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 16:45:01 -0400 Felix Miata <xxx> wrote:
On 06/08/03 22:08 (GMT+0200) pelibali apparently typed:
Sorta the opposite of above, which seems likely to be off by up to 12 hours.
Hmmmm. I'm sorry, I tried on my own laptop from command line, how my mom could change the time of her compi (until I come home and exchange the battery). I composed the recipe and told to her via phone, but forgot to change back the time of my system! By the way the BIOS settings are seemingly not lost (yet), just the slow time makes joke with us; I will post a script to my mom, which takes the correct time always from a time-server once she is online. With that she will still have a smaller drift, but not few days/week as she just had till yesterday. That should be enough for the next 3-4 weeks until I appear... Thanks for your answers, Pelibali
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