Rod Waldren wrote: > On 12/12/2009 1:29 PM, Mike McCarty wrote: > >> If I understand his first post, his problem is losing system time while >> it is up, not batteries. Replacing the battery will not make his >> system keep better time. If he still loses time while the power supply >> is turned on, even when running with the hardware clock as the main >> timing device, the battery isn't going to help. >> >> Mike >> >> > I've had a bad battery manifest problems in many ways, not just losing > time while powered down. Most recently I was having random problems and > odd instability with a system. It was rock solid after replacing the > battery. It's wasn't as bad as old Macs which completely lost their > minds if the battery was bad, but along similar lines. If it's bad > replace it or temporarily swap in a good one to see it it helps. > I replaced the battery and the behavior didn't change. The time loss occurs only under high load. When uptime reports a high load average, the system loses time like crazy. When it is just sitting doing nothing it keeps perfect time. I don't know what to make of it. Perhaps someone else can.
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