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October 28th, 2002, 06:52 PM
#1
Registered User
funky time
I have a machine that anytime the machine is off, time stands still. If the machine is left running, it loses time slowly. When you reboot after letting it set and lose some time, it somehow, magiclly gets back the time it lost while setting idle.
Now comes the funky part.
We upgraded the whole system due to a power surge, the only things useable were the hard drive (Maxtor UATA133 60GB) and the 16x Creative Labs DVD ROM (which died on the bench)...
Hardware installed was:
Soyo P4s DRAGON Ultra
P4 1.8GHz
256MB DDR370 PC 3000
XFX GF4 MX440
LT Winmodem
Pioneer 16x DVD ROM
Mitsumi 1.44 MB
300 Watt PS
Customer has said that this problem has afflicted the system before and after the upgrade, what are the chances of a battery doing this? or even more unlikley, hard drive or it's contents.
Opinions please?!?!?!
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October 28th, 2002, 07:27 PM
#2
Senior Member
Yep, I reckon the battery would be culprit if the board hasn't been changed, but secondly I would try a different HDD on there, just to be sure.
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October 28th, 2002, 07:35 PM
#3
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Another vote here for the battery, also, was the OS reloaded?
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October 28th, 2002, 07:40 PM
#4
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To eliminate everything but the battery, real time clock, and motherboard..just check the bios time and see if it is losing as well..if it is, then it isn't due to any external source at the computer level. Brownouts and low power at the user location might be culprits also if it doesn't happen while in the shop
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October 28th, 2002, 07:46 PM
#5
Registered User
This problem was there before and after a motherboard change. New battery included.
The OS has not been reinstalled, it is a very good, clean working install of 98se. All of the drivers were removed from within safemode on first boot and then reinstalled from the latest drivers from websites.
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October 28th, 2002, 07:56 PM
#6
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