Summary: I am running an old Crutchfield 486 tower. It has Windows 3.10 and DOS6.0 Enhanced. My problem is that the Twin Head real time clock chip is dead (I...
Summary: It is most likely a Dallas RTC chip which includes the battery and a "Real Time Clock" crystal in one large ugly black chip that has "Dallas" silkscr...
Summary: James I tried the file tha you mailed me and I was able to accsess the time settings and a few other things. I set the time and date but I still can't...
Summary: To avoid confusion let's just use one or the other eh? Laptops can be extremely difficult to work on - not recommended as the project to cut your teet...
Summary: James I tried the file tha you mailed me and I was able to accsess the time settings and a few other things. I set the time and date but I still can't...
Summary: This machine is new to you? 'RTC lost power' = dead real time clock battery 'Insert DIAGNOSTIC diskete in Drive A:' This machine predates CMOS - optio...
Summary: thanks for the reply james, i tried pressing the F1 key and the message just repeats it's self. I press the F10 key and the comp just reboots back to ...
Summary: lets see who's the best comp tech here! I'M in desporate need of more assistance. I can't get my comp to to boot. I also posted a few discriptions of ...
Summary: Another cause of mysterious "Hard Drive Failures" is a dead CMOS battery. This happened on an old Packard-Bell Axcel 2005. It would boot up, check RAM...
Summary: RTC=Real Time Clock The CMOS battery is dead,dead,deadski... Internet search engines are your friends. Morpheus: There is a difference between know...
Summary: Hi Alan: You might have a bad bios battery, so change that first if you haven't done so. Then see if you clock works by leaving on the clock.exe in Wi...
Summary: Hi mk: Here's my opinions. 1) It seems, I'll have problem loading win 95 + basic office + browsers due to mamory & HD space? should i try to upgrade m...
Summary: Quite honestly, I'd give up. There's a reason most (all?) available MP3 players requires a math co-processor to decode the audio stream in real time....
Summary: Both answers above are very good possibilities, but if it's a machine that has been sitting for a long time (months or more), then the likely culprit ...
Summary: Hello Bubba. As far as I know, there is no personal firewall for windows 3x. Zonealarm and the other personal firewalls require windows 9x. There are ...
Summary: Decoding mp3 in real time with a 386 processor (even at lower quality and even if you have a math coprocessor) is out of the question. It just needs m...
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Summary: Hey everybody! Thanks for your advice - I know that 3.x is NOT susceptible for todays let alone any viruses but this is just to prove that I can get ...
Summary: Hi, Sounds as if your battery or DALLAS TIME CLOCK has gone dead and the puter has lost it's memory. Try hitting F1 when you get the IBM OK on screen ...
Summary: Dead motherboard battery: Some can easily be replaced, others solder to the motherboard, and that needs to go into a shop for replacement. I have a pa...
Summary: I' ve been using Opera ver. 3.62 with plain old Win 3.11 and consider it the best available 16-bit browser (though it still nags me with purchasing, w...
Summary: hello, i bought a toshiba t3200sx recently. when i run it then it wants me to run setup. on the screen before setup it says that the clock chip lost p...
Summary: Aaron The link posted by The Doofus takes you to a program which isnt for win3.1 (though it says it is) its really only for win95 winNT 4.0, tucows (...
Summary: Would greatly appreciate any insight regarding an EISA 486DX2 that reads "EISA CMOS checksum failure..." during POST. The clock is a Dallas 1488 Real...
Summary: Everyone, I have an IBM/PS1. It has 32 MB memory, two hard drives 253 MB (the original) and the other hard drive 2,555 MB. It has a 486SX2 chip, 50 MH...
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