Re: Computer clock is slow

Jyeshta wrote:

On Sun, 6 Aug 2006 17:03:47 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
<kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You're welcome. If the clock is losing time while turned off, just
replace the battery. It's cheap and easy.

If you don't, sooner of later you'll lose all the CMOS settings.

By the way you usually have at last 15 minutes to replace the
battery before losing the settings, but it's prudent to have a hard
copy of what they are before beginning, just in case you have to put
them back manually.

Thank you, Ken. What are the CMOS settings? Sorry for being so
ignorant.

These are setting that are kept in a special memory chip on the motherboard.
They are the basic hardware settings on the system, and contain the time and
date, among other things. The battery we've been talking about keeps all of
those settings correct, as well as the time and date.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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