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From: silver@xrtll.uucp (Hi Ho Silver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Strange problem w/ System Clock
Message-ID: <1990Dec22.202838.7083@xrtll.uucp>
Date: 22 Dec 90 20:28:38 GMT
References: <1990Dec19.040938.8110@bony1.uucp>
Reply-To: silver@xrtll.UUCP (Hi Ho Silver)
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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).

   My machine started losing time when powered off, and quickly progressed
to the point where the real time clock virtually stops when the machine is
powered off.  My guess is that it _is_ the battery; it may not have dropped
to a level at which the CMOS RAM loses its information, but it may not be
enough for the clock to run.  That's just a guess, though.
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