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cmos battery
Name: Martin Date: November 24, 2003 at 07:28:51 Pacific OS: xp home CPU/Ram: 2.8ghz/1gig
Comment:
Hi
The date, time ect on my Gateway solo 9100 were constantly incorrect. I assumed this was due to a failing cmos battery so I replaced the cmos battery but this has not corrected the problem. Does any one have any ideas on why the date and time are not being held on the correct settings. I look forward to ideas.
Name: wanderer Date: November 24, 2003 at 08:37:23 Pacific
Reply:
very simple. bad quartz clock chip. This is built-into the mainboard and can't be replaced. Either get a program like AtomTime and constantly sync with the atomic clock, live with it or replace your mainboard.
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Response Number 2
Name: sam Date: November 24, 2003 at 09:59:47 Pacific
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I've never seen a motherboard that kept accurate time. They seem to all lose or gain a little each day.
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Response Number 3
Name: Diptam Date: November 26, 2003 at 08:00:08 Pacific
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Replacing mainboard for date and time is not a reasonable idea ...
you can try resetting the BIOS ... there is a jumper located which you have to pull and hold for 15 secs so to flash the BIOS ...
But let me know what model, make you are using ...
i did it recently in my laptop... thats a compaq presario 1825..
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