Normaly when the batt starts dying it loses the date and time and all BIOS settings entirely. At boot up your bios should give a certain message. Not sure if there would be a time slow down instead but perhaps it can happen.
On Tue Aug 17th, 2010 10:34 AM EDT Jeremy wrote: >I lost an hour on my workstation clock over the weekend, and 20 minutes >just over last night. ntpdate puts me right, but what is going on? Dying >CMOS battery? Is that even what keeps clock stable? System was on the >whole time, and running several VMs. > >Linux 2.6.32-24-generic #39-Ubuntu SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux > >Jeremy >_______________________________________________ >mlug mailing list >[email protected] >https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
