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From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Battery backed up clock not found: A500
Keywords: 500, battery dead, help
Message-ID: <9103131541.39@rmkhome.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 91 02:00:00 GMT
References: <395@schoenfinkel.CS.UWindsor.Ca>
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
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In article <395@schoenfinkel.CS.UWindsor.Ca> middleto@CS.UWindsor.Ca (Blair Middleton) writes:
>I know this has been asked before, but I now need some help:
>Last night my A500 booted up with the message:
>      "batery backed up clock not found"
>And had the date and time not set. It looks as if my clock
>or the battery is dead, as setting it doesn't make the time
>hold through a re-boot. I looked through the manual but didn't
>find any info. I then took out the A501 512k memory expansion
>that I think houses the battery but found it spot-welded together.

Your clock may have been trashed by bad code.

Try this:

	1. set the date and time with the DATE command

	2. clear the clock with "setclock RESET"

	3. reset the clock with "setclock SAVE"

	4. do a "setclock LOAD" to see if it works now

This worked for me when my clock disappeared.


Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	frog!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP