This is a PII box and the MB book does not indicate all the special
messages you suggest.
Second all the behaviors were the same as those I observed in a 486 when
its CMOS battery went down.
My experience led me into the same wrong path so dont feel put upon
because I asked questions considtant with my experience.
I stumbled upon the type of time setting when I was studying hardware
settings trying to resolve internet and email issues. As I had mislaid
my books I decided to change something and see if it helped or hurt my
system. the next day when I found my books and booted the system things
worked correctly.
I dont expect anyone here to apologise for asking for help while
continuing to hack arround their system to fix problems. Thats how we
grow linux and get smarter ourselves. That said I did not intend to
waste anyones time; only to solve a problem.
CWSIV
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:17:53 +0100 (CET) "Carlos E. R."
El 2003-10-28 a las 20:40, Carl William Spitzer IV escribió:
I plan to have it onhand for the switch. I multiboot with win311 and have cmos backedup with Norton Rescue. I also found the time was set to utc and I switched it to local time. Now it seems to leave the clock alone and booting to win3 and the time is correct today.
You didn't explain that before.
If the battery is bad, which is what you said, there is a message from the BIOS when you boot that says that the battery is bad and that you must replace it. There is no possible mistake in reading that message.
If the battery runs low, the CMOS configuration will be cleared and reset, and you also get a very clear message about it.
Now what you say is that the time was simply set wrong -- that is a very different issue, and a known one when you boot both into Linux and windows on the same machine, and has nothing to do with the battery.
Please, when you email to the list, please be careful and precise about what you write and don't point us on the wrong direction!
-- Saludos Carlos Robinson
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