Clock is wrong everytime I boot up!
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Clock is wrong everytime I boot up!
05-08-2011 10:37 AM
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Everytime I boot up. the clock shows the wrong time....strangely by five hour slow... the minutes are correct..... could this be the BIOS battery.... or is it "defaulting" to the US time because of low voltage?
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05-08-2011 11:03 AM
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Can you check the time zone in the clock settings?
To argue with someone who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead - Thomas Paine
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05-08-2011 11:05 AM
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At least this will rule out the operating system or not as the case may be as what you are describing sounds like a time zone problem not a CMOS battery problem
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05-08-2011 11:24 AM
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05-08-2011 12:34 PM
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Quote sounds like a time zone problem not a CMOS battery problem
Although if its defaulting to -5 hours, it could be a timezone setting in the BIOS (which would then be offset by the OS), depends how decent the BIOS on the Dell is, ive just refurbed an E5410 - and the bios on that is pretty slick! its like opening System Information in windows
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05-08-2011 1:06 PM
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Thanks guys.
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05-08-2011 1:37 PM
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Quote from: shutter Dell Inspiron 2200 about 5 years old..... main battery is dead, but does get "some" charge when plugged into the mains.. (enough to keep it going for about 1 minute! ! )....
I'm curious.. you know its duff but you still keep it? (and then wonder why your system is screwy?)
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05-08-2011 2:00 PM
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here's some info on it:
Battery
Re: Clock is wrong everytime I boot up!
05-08-2011 4:50 PM
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Quote from: okrzynska
Quote from: shutter Dell Inspiron 2200 about 5 years old..... main battery is dead, but does get "some" charge when plugged into the mains.. (enough to keep it going for about 1 minute! ! )....
I'm curious.. you know its duff but you still keep it? (and then wonder why your system is screwy?)
A bit like your car then
I do have two more up to date laptops,.... this one is being used to trial Linux MINT with the intention of getting used to the way it works, and eventually dumping Windows.... AND ... I keep it in the boot of the car, so I can use it on our journeys around the country, (with my 100% reliable and extremely economical {{ { 65 + m.p.g. } }} SKODA FABIA 1.9 SDI 10 years old and 162,000 miles on the clock, of which I have enjoyed driving over 105,000 of them ! ! ! .... )
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05-08-2011 6:13 PM
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162k? Blimey thats good going for a skoda.. I still prefer Volvo lumps myself.. you'll get 500K out of one of them before its considered run in (and in that time the rest of the car will drop apart first before the engine dies).
Anyway, change the CMOS battery My mate had non-stop problems with one of his machines years ago where it would randomly freeze. CMOS battery was low and was basically causing the clock to do weird things which Windows couldn't fathom and would consequently hang. CMOS batteries affect computers in odd ways so you really are better off spending £2 and changing it.
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05-08-2011 6:17 PM
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It would always reset to the same hour as well.
Sounds to me like it is doing a check with a time server at start up that is 5 hours different to us.
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05-08-2011 6:26 PM
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11-08-2011 9:20 PM
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11-08-2011 10:05 PM
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Oh, and I forgot to say... It is running LINUX MINT 11..... with quite a few of my windows progs working too !... so am chuffed to bits...
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11-08-2011 10:09 PM
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Quote from: shutter Yes, thanks,..... working fine.... it was the settings... so the old machine is still firing on all points ! ...
Maybe that should be running on all ports
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