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From: johnf@light.ssl.berkeley.edu (John Flanagan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: 1.3 setclock bug?
Summary: Possibly dying battery?
Keywords: AmigaDos 1.3 bugs setclock
Message-ID: <17154@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 17 Nov 88 19:56:25 GMT
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In article <120@censor.UUCP> hugh@censor.UUCP (Hugh Gamble) writes:
>I think I've run into a bug in 1.3 setclock, here's the story:
><...>
>When my startup sequence got to the setclock line I got a
>message something like "Battery Backed up Clock not found"
>I tried a cold boot, same thing.  Everything else was working
>fine though.

	I have just had a similar problem.  For the past week or so setclock
has occasionally failed with "Battery Backed up Clock not found".
Sometimes manually setting the time appeared to fixed it, sometimes rebooting
seemed to help.  Finally last night it failed and stayed that way.
Suspecting 1.3, I rebooted with my old 1.2 setup, and the setclock
still failed (albeit with a differently worded error message, but to
the same effect).  My setup is an A500 with the Microbotics 512k
internal expansion, which is supposed to be identical to the Commodore
expansion.  

	I read the spec sheet which came with the Microbotics
board, and it states that the first time the board is used, it may
have to be left in a powered-up computer for a few hours while the NiCad 
battery charges up.  Since my computer has been off more than usual in
the past few weeks, I decided to leave it on over night to see whether
the NiCad would charge up.  Just before I left for work this morning,
I tried setclock, and it worked!

	So, assuming Commodore also put a NiCad in the A2000, I would 
suggest trying to leave your Amiga on for a few hours to try to recharge it.
Also, you mention that you measured the battery output to be 4V.  I
don't know, but I suspect that it should put out 5V when at full charge.

>-- 
>| Hugh D. Gamble  (416) 581-4354  {lsuc, utzoo}!censor!hugh  (Std. Disclaimers)
>| I can push any computer to its limits.
>| Any computer can push me to *my* limits.

--John Flanagan
  johnf@sag4.ssl.berkeley.edu