had a crash after restire clock was an hour slow keeps time after that 2nd crash clock now 2 hours slow but keeping time tried in control panel ,date and time but time greyed out .someone told me to reset through dos but did not work (see clock post on this forum) new computer so it cant be the battery anyway it keeps time after that seems something happens when i restored to factory settings .p.s got to point 8 on other post then got message system disc invalid....

New doesnt rule out bad battery.
Restore to factory settings? What do you mean by this?
Loses an hour after each crash? This sounds strange.
Have you double clicked the clock in the systray and attempted to alter the time?

I wasnt able to get to a c prompt by tpying in CD at the command prompt in windows me.
Defaults to C:\windows and remains here. When attempting to Format a:/s i get an error informaing me the /s isnt supported in windows anylonger and to create a startup disk in add and remove programs. I assume from this you werent able to create a startup disk and this is the reason for the invalid system disk.

I have never seen time greyed out in the Control Panel icon ?? Maybe a corrupt TIMEDATE.CPL file
Can you get to the Windows CAB files - are they installed on the hard drive ?
You could try extracting a new timedate.cpl and replacing it in C:\Windows\System

billy, go to "MS-DOS Promt" open. Then at the promt type;

time

Then press "Enter" See if the time displayed in DOS is the same as on your taskbar(wonder) Then set your time. Press "Enter" Then type;

exit

Press "Enter" Good Luck

(Ill try)

perfect my time is now correct thanks.

ps thanks for everybody elses input also....

You're welcome
Good Luck