Re: Thinkpad 750 clock losing track of time at power on

From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Tue May 12 1998 - 01:33:35 EDT

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Sounds like the clock battery is dead..
i think its the larger one under the floppy..

Alexander J. Annala wrote:

> Hope you don't mind me asking but my Thinkpad keeps forgetting the date &
> time. Every start up it begins with error and asks for the date & time.
> I can't understand why it does this. I went into Norton Utiities DOS ans it
> said that the C-Mos battery was operational, I spose it could be lying.
> Have you any ideas where to go from here?

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