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motherboard battery failure?
mig wrote:
over the past few weeks i have noticed that the system clock seems to be loosing time randomly, anything from a few minutes upto 24 hours, and although i have a program that corrects this every hour it is never right for more than an hour at a time. also when i turn my pc off overnight, when i come to boot it up the next day the time is the same as it was when it was turned off. i want to know whether the motherboard battery has anything to do with the system clock as this is the simplest reason i can think of, a dead mb battery. motherboard is ECS K7S5A btw Yes, the battery keeps the system clock, but nrmaly if your battery is on its way out, it will also lose the bios setings, but then it may not be at that point yet. How old is the motherboard? |
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It is not the MB battery if you correct the time and it goes wrong
BEFORE you shutdown or reboot. When you boot, the CMOS is read for the proper time. After that point, the PC keeps track of the time WITHOUT using CMOS. Sounds like a program is mucking up your clock, or you may have a virus. What happens if you just boot the PC, fix the time, and let it sit doing nothing for a while? "mig" wrote in message ... over the past few weeks i have noticed that the system clock seems to be loosing time randomly, anything from a few minutes upto 24 hours, and although i have a program that corrects this every hour it is never right for more than an hour at a time. also when i turn my pc off overnight, when i come to boot it up the next day the time is the same as it was when it was turned off. i want to know whether the motherboard battery has anything to do with the system clock as this is the simplest reason i can think of, a dead mb battery. motherboard is ECS K7S5A btw -- mig |
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Some One wrote:
It is not the MB battery if you correct the time and it goes wrong BEFORE you shutdown or reboot. When you boot, the CMOS is read for the proper time. After that point, the PC keeps track of the time WITHOUT using CMOS. Sounds like a program is mucking up your clock, or you may have a virus. What happens if you just boot the PC, fix the time, and let it sit doing nothing for a while? Oh yes, now I have looked at the message better, I see what he means. Yes, it could be a rouge program it could also be a virus. |
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ive tried scannig for viruses, ending all none essensial programs via task
manager and leaving it but no luck, it still jumps around. im gonna change the battery to see if this helps, any one know where i can find out what type i will need? -- mig "Smoker" wrote in message ... "mig" wrote in message ... over the past few weeks i have noticed that the system clock seems to be loosing time randomly, anything from a few minutes upto 24 hours, and although i have a program that corrects this every hour it is never right for more than an hour at a time. also when i turn my pc off overnight, when i come to boot it up the next day the time is the same as it was when it was turned off. i want to know whether the motherboard battery has anything to do with the system clock as this is the simplest reason i can think of, a dead mb battery. motherboard is ECS K7S5A btw -- The board ships with a cheap low quality battery. It's a good idea to replace it. They only cost $3 or less. |
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ive tried scannig for viruses, ending all none essensial programs via task
manager and leaving it but no luck, it still jumps around. im gonna change the battery to see if this helps, any one know where i can find out what type i will need? Changing the battery will do nothing for you once the computer has booted up. The clock that is battery powered is only read in as the computer starts. After that time is red it is up to the computer to keep up with the time. Check to see what software you have installed from when the computer started loosing time. If you do insist in changing the battery make sure you have all the cmos set up data recorded so you can put that back in as you will probably loose it when you change the batery. |
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