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From: mlord@bnr-public.uucp (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Looking for lost CMOS Ram article
Keywords: CMOS, battery
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Date: 12 Jun 89 15:30:28 GMT
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>>>   My AT-compatible is loosing its CMOS ram quite regularly now
>>>   (after EVERY power-up) and new batteries have not helped.
>>
>>Funny thing.  My AT clone has exactly the same problem.  I have even replaced
>
>Hmmm... you guys wouldn't have Tatung machines by any chance, would you?

I don't think so.. it's an ancient SAM VIP something or another.. no fancy
chipsets etc..  The real time clock keeps on ticking just fine between powerups
but the CMOS ram forgets everything any time a hardware reset is issued (such
as on a powerup or when I hit the big red button).  CTL-ALT-DEL is just fine.
I suspected a virus maybe, but booting from original write-protected-since-day-1
DOS diskettes (from MicroSoft) makes no difference.  Something strange is going
on somewhere.  

-Mark