Hi all,
If your BIOS was dated prior to 1995, try the following:
* Set date to (mm/dd/yy): 12/31/99
* Set time to 23:59
* Wait a minute, date will be changed smoothly as 1/1/2000
* Hit reset button
* See if the date intact ;-)
On my old AT/286 with '90 Award BIOS running MS-DOS 6.22,
date was changed automagically to 01/04/1980 after reboot.
BIOS date was 1/1/1900 instead of 1/1/2000 (which is outside
MS-DOS valid range of 1/1/1980 to 12/31/2099).
Under these circumstances, a BIOS patch TSR is required
to advance my PC to year 2000, MS-DOS alone won't survive
the millenium change. So, is this MS-DOS inability to
deal with BIOS flaw could be categorized as non-Y2K
compliant?
Caveat: Setting the date manually to year 2000 will overwrite
CMOS RTC's millenium register, and thus fix the Y2K
problem without any BIOS patch.
--Eko
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