I'm trying to help a friend with a G3 Beige tower (300? 350? whatever the last one was?). It had been resetting date on him, so we thought he needed a battery. I took three good batteries with me (each tested to 3.7 volts) and went over...verified date would not hold over a shutdown/restart...then swapped the battery out. It still won't hold! Tried each of the three batteries...all of which work fine in my G3 beige 266 tower...and which still test 3.7 volts.
I don't get it...what else affects holding the date over a shutdown? Is there software that will test the hardware on those towers to see if there is some sort of bad connection somewhere?
What is the date getting set to? Is it something before 1980? Then it is a problem with the clock and or battery power. If it's after 1980 then it may be something else. Try starting up with the shift key held down and see if that makes a difference.
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