I'm not sure if this is relevant but something similar
happened to me with my G4 tower and I was told to
change the battery on the motherboard. I don't know if
notebooks even have a battery on the motherboard but
if they do the battery can be the cause of loss of
date and time.
If they don't completely ignore what I've just said,
its just a stab in the dark.
Kind regards,
Kelly
--- Neil Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
hello all,
>
> G4 400MHz Ti powerbook, running OS9.1.
> I was just online, running off mains adaptor (with
> battery fully charged).
> The energy saver settings are:
> -for power adaptor - slider to better
> performance,
> sleep at 15 mins, display at 5 mins
> -for battery - slider to midpoint between better
> conservation
> & better performance,
> sleep at 7.5 mins, display at 3 mins
>
> Whilst I was actively using the machine (a page was
> loading as I recall)
> all of a sudden the machine just shut down - no
> message, no sound, no
> warning. When I rebooted, I got the usual messages
> about machine not
> shutting down correctly but the a message box
> telling me I had a "Network
> Time Error" with the clock set to a year before
> 1973. I opened the Date &
> Time control panel and found the date was
> 01/01/1904.
>
> I have reset the clock (using apple asia time
> server) and all seems OK at
> present.
>
> I have never encountered a problem like this before
> and so I'm worried:
> Is this likely to be a one-off glitch or is it
> indicative of deeper
> problems. Any feedback from anyone who has
> experienced a similar occurrence
> would be appreciated.
>
> **Sudden thought
> I've also just realised I've just had two strange
> emails (I mean different
> from the usual strange emails!!):
>
> (1) This was received when I logged on this morning
> (prior to my glitch)
> with a Subject "This number will be decommissioned":
>
> > Dear customer,
> >
> > Our records show that your modem recently dialled
> (08) 9842 7100
> > to connect to iiNet. Please note that this number
> is due to be
> > decommissioned at 9am on Monday, 16th of July,
> 2001.
> >
> > The new number is (08) 9843 0000.
> >
> > To dial this new number your dialup software will
> need to
> > be changed to
> >
> Which is interesting since I have never used iinet.
> The email purports to be
> sent at 06/09/03 13:20 from
> '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and has an
> attachment called 'db1.mdb.exe'. I assume that this
> is probably a virus but
> as an .exe pc file should not affect my mac? (I am
> not running any PC
> emulation software)
>
> (2) This was received during my current session
> (after rebooting and
> resetting the time) with a subject "Welcome to
> Outlook Express 5":
>
> > <HTML>
> > <HEAD>
> > <META HTTP-EQUIV=3D"Content-Type"
> CONTENT=3D"text/html; =
> > charset=3Dwindows-1252">
> > <STYLE>
> > font{font-family:"Verdana";font-size:8pt;co
>
> The email purports to be sent at 08/09/03 11:08
> from 'Microsoft Outlook
> Express Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' and has an attachment
> called 'db1.mdb.scr'. I
> note the similarity in file name to attachment (1)
> and assume that this is
> also probably a virus but could this affect my mac
> (I have NOT attempted to
> open the attachment)?
>
> Could these emails be related to my problem or just
> a coincidence?
>
> Is it worth using BBEdit Lite to take a peek at the
> attachments or is it
> safer to just delete both messages ASAP.
>
> Any advice gratefully recieved
>
> TIA
>
> Neil
>
> --
> Neil R. Houghton
> Albany, Western Australia
> Tel: +61 8 9841 6063
> Fax: +61 8 9841 6137
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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