On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 11:30:44PM +0000, thomas lakofski wrote: > is it quite an old pc? you might need a new battery on your motherboard, > the little lithium cr2032 one which supplies power to the rtc and nvram > when it's switched off. if the battery goes, it has trouble storing the > time. it's not completely consistent with the behaviour you're describing > though, but it's worth checking.
It's not just old PCs with discrete batteries -- I'm reasonably sure I've seen photos of new motherboards with these lately. I was a bit surprised myself. I think my ASUS Super7 board may even have one (but I don't have the case open to check presently). Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD. CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.
