Re: pc clock

Article View: alt.comp.hardware

Article #3844

#3844

From: Andy Champ
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 23:04

29 lines
2382 bytes

ben wrote:

> My pc clock seems to be slowing down by about 6 hours a day!  Has it got
> anything to do with the pc battery. I thought a weak pc battery ( usually
> the coin type) will only show the CMOS message that tells one to reset the
> CMOS.  I have replaced a pc battery before.........in this case. Is there
> another separate clock battery?.......if so how do I replace it?
> 
> Anyone can point me in the right direction?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
Two things I know of can do this kind of thing:

(1) low CMOS battery.  When the main power is off there's enough juice 
to keep the RAM, but not to run the clck oscillator - hence it stops 
whenever power is off.
(2) something in the system that masks interrupts for very long times.

6 hours seems a bit short for (1) and much too long for (2) so it must 
be something else!  However, try replacing the CMOS battery.

Andy.

-- 
My real mail is Andy at Champ dash family dot freeserve dot net

Technical Details

Message-ID: <3D0681F0.8050301@read.my.sig>

Path:

arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!kibo.news.demon.net!demon!diablo.theplanet.net!news.theplanet.net!not-for-mail

References: <ae5bbn$87l$1@news5.jaring.my>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 10483c,2e46e310bc4e9bd8
X-Google-Attributes: gid10483c,public
X-Google-Thread: ff9b0,2e46e310bc4e9bd8
X-Google-Attributes: gidff9b0,public
X-Google-Thread: 1011f8,2e46e310bc4e9bd8
X-Google-Attributes: gid1011f8,public
X-Google-Thread: f5f89,7a1401a6e40bdf58
X-Google-Attributes: gidf5f89,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-11 15:04:11 PST
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!kibo.news.demon.net!demon!diablo.theplanet.net!news.theplanet.net!not-for-mail
From: Andy Champ <andy.champ@read.my.sig>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.giga-byte,jaring.pcbase
Subject: Re: pc clock
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 23:04:16 +0000
Lines: 30
Message-ID: <3D0681F0.8050301@read.my.sig>
References: <ae5bbn$87l$1@news5.jaring.my>
NNTP-Posting-Host: modem-154.tailslide.dialup.pol.co.uk
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Trace: newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk 1023833051 12709 62.25.192.154 (11 Jun 2002 22:04:11 GMT)
NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Jun 2002 22:04:11 GMT
X-Complaints-To: abuse@theplanet.net
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-GB; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1
X-Accept-Language: en-gb

Reply to Parent Message