Klarinet Archive - Posting 000240.txt from 1999/02

From: dsuther@-----.ca
Subj: [kl] CMOS
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 23:38:56 -0500

At 14:22 05/02/99 -0600, you wrote:
You know what you wrote:

Thank you for responding to my "My problem" with the date and time
functions of my computer. Although my computer is a cutting edge, state of
the art 386[It wasn't that long ago when it would have been considered
such] and handed down to me from my mother who has 3 other computers with
better stats than than this one. Afterall when you are nearing your
seventy's you cannot waste time. [Money yes, time no]. I've seen the guts
of this computer and can locate the battery but am not sure what will be
wiped clean if I disconnect it to replace it.
What shall I do.

Dan
>At 10:24 AM 2/3/99, you wrote:
>>And why does my computer continually lose time no matter that I correct the
>>time and date? Is it in retreat from the Y2K bug?
>>
>Maybe the CMOS battery is going, so the clock runs poorly when the computer
>is turned off. At least that's what happens on my computer every few years.
>George Kidder
>gkidder@-----.edu
>
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