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From: jeh@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Strange problem w/ System Clock
Message-ID: <1990Dec20.182335.1742@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: 20 Dec 90 22:23:35 GMT
References: <1990Dec19.040938.8110@bony1.uucp>
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In article <1990Dec19.040938.8110@bony1.uucp>,
stevef@bony1.uucp (Steve Faiwiszewski) writes:
> 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).

It's almost certainly the battery.  That's what usually happens
when the battery dies-- first the clock stops when the computer
is off, then later the computer starts to forget...

  --jh

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John Hood, Mann Library, Cornell University
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