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
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