Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!sdcsvax!nosc!humu!uhccux!yuan
From: yuan@uhccux.UUCP (Yuan Chang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Help: problem with system clock on IBM AT
Message-ID: <1453@uhccux.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jan 88 09:55:28 GMT
References: <10445@shemp.UCLA.EDU>
Reply-To: yuan@uhccux.UUCP (Yuan Chang)
Organization: U. of Barbarians.  Honolulu, Hawaii
Lines: 25
Summary: Battery problem (still)?

In article <10445@shemp.UCLA.EDU> jsin@CS.UCLA.EDU (John Sin) writes:
>
>Recently, my IBM AT is having a strange problem with its clock.
>The problem is that the clock does not seem to run when the machine
>is off, so that when I turn the machine on the next morning, the date
>and time are set to that of the previous night. Doing the 'set-up'
>routine with the diagnostics disk does not cure the symptom, and I
>replaced the battery about two months ago.

	Same thing happened to me just a few days ago.  At first I
thought it couldn't be the battery, as my computer is only about
6 months old.  But by wiring in another battery in parallel, I was
able to get the clock running again.  This is a temperary fix,
as I have not been able to figure out if there's a large current 
drain somewhere.  I added a connector in there with a holder for
AA batteries so I don't have to pay $20 for a replacement battery
while I'm trying to work the bugs out.  That may be the most 
economical (if not most troublesome) way to "solve" the problem.


-- 
Yuan Chang 
UUCP:      {ihnp4,uunet,ucbvax,dcdwest}!sdcsvax!nosc!uhccux!yuan
ARPA:	   uhccux!yuan@nosc.MIL               "Wouldn't you like to 
INTERNET:  yuan@uhccux.UHCC.HAWAII.EDU         be an _A_m_i_g_o_i_d too?!?"