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From: beaucham@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: RE: set system clock?
Message-ID: <19500035@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 22 Sep 89 16:27:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxh.cso.uiuc.edu!beaucham    Sep 22 11:27:00 1989


Boy, did I get a lot of answers on that one -- most of them correct.
The moral is, if you want a lot of response, ask an easy question.
The correct answers are:

GTO  means          the IBM "Guide to Operations" manual
   (I hate acronyms; why couldn't IBM spell it out in the Disk Operating System
    manual?)

To reset the system clock, you can fork out the money for a clock card, run
some special software which you can download from a net somewhere, OR you can
simply yank out your old (seldom used) "Diagnostics for IBM Personal Computer
AT" diskette, boot up with it, and select option 4 -- SETUP.  This allows you
to reset the date and time, which unlike when you run under DOS, actually gets
saved in the hardware.  If I had DOS 3.3 or later (I have 3.0), I wouldn't
have had to run SETUP; the regular TIME command would have sufficed.

Now that I've saved the time, I note that I am losing 2 minutes per day.
Someone pointed out that my battery is probably running down and that it could
die soon.  So I've been forewarned.  When the battery dies, the machine forgets
about all of the setup settings and you have to buy and install a new battery
and run the diagnostics disk again.  The easiest thing to forget is the number 
(or numbers) of the hard disk(s) you have installed, so if you don't have them 
written down somewhere already, it is a good idea to run the setup procedure 
just to get those down before the battery dies on you.

Thanks for all of your suggestions!  BTW, here are two other stupid questions:
Where can you buy a replacement battery for a 6 MHz AT?  
What is involved in upgrading to the anther version of DOS -- e.g., DOS 4.0?
Do I need to reformat my disks (I have one 42 Mbyte Seagate which is running
under a Disk Manager driver and one regular 20 Mbyte DOS disk)?

		beaucham@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu