Topic: PC Time and Date

[Razor]

Guy's,

I'm having a bit of a problem with my time and date on my PC.  No matter how many times that I set it, the next time I switch on my PC, the time is always wrong, and sometimes the date..!

Any thoughts please?

Ray

[PaulP]

Hi Ray,

There is a battery usually held in place by a clip on the main circuit board (motherboard). This keeps the clock going when the PC is powered off. The battery is usually one of those small flat shiny ones the size of a coin.
It could be that I suppose? Mind you a virus could be doing something to your machine.

Is the PC very old? I've never had to replace the battery I was describing even on PCs that were 8 years old.

Cheers,

Paul

[Razor]

Hi Paul,

Yeah, it's quite old mate.  I was wondering if my PC had set itself to another time zone but when I check the clock, it always says GMT?

God I hope it's not a virus

Ray

[CurryCrazy]

As Paul said - It'll be the battery.

Your CMOS settings defaulting because the battery is dead.

Easy job - couple of quid.

Phil

[spiceyokooko]

Ray

As others have mentioned, it's almost certainly your PRAM battery. This stores the date and time along with other things in a small mount of RAM until the computer is powered on again in which case it fetches this information from the PRAM Battery. If it's defaulting back to a default time, it does vary from machine to machine, but on my old Apple laptop it would be 00.00 1912, then it's almost certainly the PRAM battery.

Check online for your make and model and what battery you need as they do vary. Or if you can live with it (as I do) simply reset the date and time back to current and keep the laptop plugged and in sleep mode and trickle charging. The date and time won't change as long as the computer has a power source and isn't shut down.

[Razor]

Many thanks guys, I'll check out the battery then.  It doesn't go far out with the date, one day at most..! Booted it up this morning and everything seems ok?

My missus is going through a phase of unpluging everything from the mains at the moment, that's when it seems to happen.......so it's her fault of course

Ray

[mr.mojorisin]

as said before...most definitely the CMOS battery needs replaced
see link
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000239.htm

[Razor]

Many thanks Mr.M, will get onto this before the end of the week.

Ray

[Domi]

This link takes you back in time lol

http://web.archive.org/web/20060205023848/http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php