Hey Nick, Back on the SuSE list, as you can see. Will install SuSE 8.0 next week and dump Redhat (again). But to your question: I've seen lots of laptops develop this problem. It's usually the battery. Not the BIG battery which you recharge when you plug the machine in, but the little CMOS battery hidden inside the machine. I've never yet seen a laptop that makes this battery accessible so that users can change it themselves. You've got to pull the keyboard to get at it, and some manufacturers will void your warranty if you do it yourself. So unless you feel confident taking a laptop apart, it means sending the machine in for repair. Otherwise, just live with the screwed battery. The clock will probably continue to lose more and more time, and eventually the battery will just die and the date will reset to January 1, 1980 or whatever the default is. Robert, in Taiwan On Mon, 20 May 2002 15:17:47 +0200 Nick Selby <php@nickselby.com> wrote:
Hi, I've got Suse 8.0 on a HP 5270 notebook with KDE3. Everything seems to be running well but my system clock is going haywire. I found I couldn't set it using the K Control Center, so logged in as root and set the date with the right time. two days ago. Yesterday it had lost an hour - could have been me in my bleary-eyed 2 am state when I set the clock. But today it had lost 6 minutes.
Anyone else have this kind of experience or have any advice?
Thanks, Nick
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