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| Thread ID: 65391 | 2006-01-16 19:38:00 | Laptop clock going slow! | stuffed (1469) | Press F1 |
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| 421652 | 2006-01-16 19:38:00 | Have dusted off an old Toshiba Satellite 2520 CDT Laptop to run a stand-alone application. However the clock is going slow – loosing about an hour over a 12 hour period – yet when do a reboot the time is correct. Any suggestions?! Many thanks |
stuffed (1469) | ||
| 421653 | 2006-01-16 20:55:00 | Change the CMOS battery? If its got one somewhere. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 421654 | 2006-01-16 21:16:00 | According to my Dell user manual (yet again) A coin-cell battery (CMOS) maintains computer configuration, date and time information. The battery can last several years. If you have to repeatedly reset time and date information after turning on the computer, replace the battery. Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 421655 | 2006-01-16 21:16:00 | Yeah think that might be it but darned if can find the specs of the backup battery or the real time clock battery (not given in the user’s manual). Anyone know a Toshiba site that may be able to help with this info? It is a Satellite 2520CDT – about 7 years old. Many thanks |
stuffed (1469) | ||
| 421656 | 2006-01-16 21:36:00 | The fact that the time is correct when rebooted shows that the CMOS batt is OK. The clock that is losing time is the software clock in your operating system. That is probably at the mercy of other software grabbing CPU priority and a slow CPU. |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 421657 | 2006-01-16 21:52:00 | Yes would agree with that – am running a standalone application - and only the one (Weather Display) on Win 98. Is there a way to automatically reboot Win 98 say every 6 hours?! Many thanks |
stuffed (1469) | ||
| 421658 | 2006-01-17 00:01:00 | How's your DEBUG or assembler programming? There will certainly be a BIOS INT which will cause the system to reboot. It will be a matter of loading the AL register, then doing an INT24 or something like that. Can you do something with the "alarm clock" function of the CMOS RTC? I once had two unattended computers at the same remote site which had to keep going. One (computer A) was very old and flakey, so I made a board to plug into its bus with which computer B could reboot it if it saw computer A had hung up. Computer B started to be a bit erratic too, so I just put a time switch in its power line. Once every 24 hours, it was turned off then on. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 421659 | 2006-01-17 00:30:00 | Graham – hi – have enough probs with Inglish let alone DEBUG or assembler programming!! Anyway have solved it – found a auto reboot thingie - www.timelyweb.com - works well. Many thanks |
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