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From: stevef@bony1.uucp (Steve Faiwiszewski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Strange problem w/ System Clock
Message-ID: <1990Dec19.040938.8110@bony1.uucp>
Date: 19 Dec 90 04:09:38 GMT
Reply-To: stevef@bony1.UUCP (Steve Faiwiszewski)
Organization: Bank of New York
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I have a strange problem with my NEC Powermate SX+ (a 386SX) machine.
Some time ago the system clock began to halt whenever the computer was
powered off.  When the computer is turned on again the clock resumes from
where it left off.  Nothing else seems to be wrong with the system, so it
can't be a simple case of the CMOS battery dying (after all the last time
the system was on is retained in the CMOS ROM).

Nothing physical was done to the machine (i.e. no new cards or peripherals
were added).  The only thing I can think of, is that around the time I noticed
the problem I re-partitioned my hard disk.  The machine came with DOS 3.3
and a 42 MB HD, which was partitioned into a 32 Meg C: and an 8 Meg D: drives.
NEC provides the facility of creating "Large" partitions under DOS 3.3 and
that's what I did (using FDisk).  Can that possibly had anything to do with
it?  Has anyone else seen this problem before?

	Thanks,
		- Steve -
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