Klarinet Archive - Posting 000287.txt from 1999/02

From: George Kidder <gkidder@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] CMOS
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 17:38:49 -0500

OK. Tell you what --> I <-- do, based on about 2 cases (hardly a sufficient
sample!) And if I'm wrong, I'm sure Mark C will correct us:

1) Go to the CMOS setup drill (which you access by pressing something
(often the delete key) while the computer is booding. Write down the
settings for everything - those arcane numbers for the hard disk, etc. This
is for "just in case".

2) Get out your new battery and examine the way it will go in. When you
shut off the power, you want to get this changed as soon as possible - say
within a minute or two.

3) Starting from a powered-up condition, shut off the computer, change the
battery, and start the computer again. If you are lucky, the CMOS circuits
will have had enough juice from the capacitors to keep them running while
the battery was out. (They only take a smidge.) If so, the computer should
boot properly and everything should work. Reset the data and time, and see
if this cured it.

4) If things don't work right, boot into the CMOS setup and put the
settings you copied down back into the machine. Now it should work OK.

I have always done 1), and never had to do 4).

Good luck.

At 08:14 PM 2/3/99, you wrote:
>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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