Thomas Mueller wrote:
>>DR-DOS on my computer successfully made the transition from 1999 to 2000,
but then the computer boots into year 1994 or 2094. BIOS has the last word?
IBM has a PC-DOS 2000.<<
from Roger Turk:
> Sounds like your CMOS battery is dead. Have you tried replacing it?
Me again:
I once had a CMOS battery go dead, and got decidedly different symptoms, like a
battery-low message, and I had to reset all the settings. This 1994/2094 is a
different set of symptoms.
How much does it cost to replace a CMOS battery on an old Cx486DX2-S/66 MHz
computer? Could I easily do it myself? Naturally I don't want to spend much
money on such an old computer.
from Joerg Dietze:
>there are some BIOSes which will refuse years later than 1999 (some
>AWARD bios versions from about 1994/95). Sorry for these boards :-(.
>Try to hack century byte in cmos.
Me again:
Yes, my BIOS brand is Award, and it dates to 1994 or possibly 1995. How would I
hack the CMOS? Sometimes the computer boots into 2094, and it is possible to
set the year interactively in CMOS to 2000 or later. I did, and found it was in
2094.
Joerg Dietze:
>AFAIK pepa driver connects when connection is needed and cancels
>connection after time of inactivity, which is adjustable in the pepa.ini
>file. Have a look at the attached zip including description and a sample
>ini file.
But isn't DSL supposed to be always on like cable, so why should there be an
inactivity disconnect?
