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- From: bevans@mta.ca
- Subject: Losing only Date & Time settings in CMOS
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.025643.765@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>
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- Reply-To: bevans@mta.ca
- Organization: Mount Allison U, Sackville, N.B. Canada
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 02:56:43 GMT
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- We've got a 286 which won't keep its Date & Time settings if we power off for
- more than a few seconds. It's been like this for some time. They've been set
- with the utility which came with the beast. Sounds like batteries, right? But
- why is the Date/Time config so sensitive while the rest of the CMOS setup
- (HDD/FDD, video, RAM, etc) remains stable? My experience with the death of the
- "long-life" batteries was having to do a complete CMOS setup each time we
- powered up. The manufacturer wants $20 for them so I want to make sure they're
- dead... or a least mortally wounded. Are they?
-
- Bill
-