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From: mgphl@msa3b.UUCP (Michael Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Re: PS/2 Model 50 loses track of time
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Date: 2 Oct 90 17:52:56 GMT
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wjb@cogsci.cog.jhu.edu (William J. Bogstad) writes:


>	I have a PS/2 Model 50 under my care which seems to lose track of
>time.  If it is turned off for a period of time (a couple of hours?) it stops
>incrementing the time and when restarted it thinks the time & date are from
>whenever it stopped counting.  If turned off for a few minutes, it comes back
>on with the correct to the second time.  My supposition is that this is a
>battery problem, but I thought that a weak battery would also cause problems
>with the setup and I would have to rerun the Reference Diskette.  Is this
>incorrect?  Any ideas?  Any sources for replacement batteries?

>				Thanks,
>				Bill Bogstad

In the early days of PS/2 mod 50s, we had the same type problem.  This was
corrected with (honest!) a device driver named DASDDRV.SYS (or DASDRV.SYS ?).
I thought it strange, but was explained to me as a fix for some BIOS bugs.
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