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From: dold@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Strange problem w/ System Clock
Message-ID: <1744@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
Date: 20 Dec 90 00:13:35 GMT
References: <1990Dec19.040938.8110@bony1.uucp>
Organization: Convergent Technologies, San Jose, CA
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in article <1990Dec19.040938.8110@bony1.uucp>, stevef@bony1.uucp (Steve Faiwiszewski) says:

> 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

On the RTC used in my computer (not the same as a PC), the clock was also
stopped.  But in fact it was not advancing at all!  The OS keeps track of
time while the system is running.  The RTC is only used at boot time.
After a power cycle, the time would be equal to when I last set it,
not when it was powered off.
My problem was the crystal used only by the RTC.  No oscillation, no clock.
In my case, this is a very small tubular thing, looks like an old capactior.

This is not a PC.  It is not running DOS.  Just a thought.
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