[Kirby]

After replacing my CMOS battery, I am still losing about 30secs. - 1 mintue each day. Much better than the 3 - 6 min I was losing before. Is this normal?

 

[Phoenix]

I also have an old Pentium @ 133MHz which I use to make experiments and even with a new battery, it loses like 30 mins a week. don't know what to do too

 

[DarkShin]

Ok... i don't know how to fix this problem, but I have a little trick that might help.

Go to http://www.worldtimeserver.com/ and look for the Atomic Clock Sync, this is a little utility that can help your PC keep up-to-date with the exact current time.

 

[ebola]

xp has a feature that syncs the clock with their time. needless to say it doesnt work so well. I lost about 10 minutes one day because of it.

 

[Esturk]

Originally posted by Phoenix
I also have an old Pentium @ 133MHz which I use to make experiments and even with a new battery, it loses like 30 mins a week. don't know what to do too

I too have a Pentium 133 with a good battery that is losing a couple minutes everyday.

 

[K.I.L.E.R]

Double click on the time on your taskbar (in XP) it will bring up the world date and bla bla. Click on the "internet time" tab and uncheck the checkbox.

 

[Esturk]

slimshady is not using XP. It's probably a hardware problem other than the battery. Like I said, my P133 has the same problem. Who the hell knows. It's quite annoying wondering what could be wrong with it.

 

[Phoenix]

Originally posted by Esturk17

I too have a Pentium 133 with a good battery that is losing a couple minutes everyday.

I'm not the only one with this problem.
I think that could be a hardware related issue for this, as you too thought

 

[Esturk]

It is the weirdest thing isn't it? That reminds me, my first computer was a Cyrix 120Mhz in an Intel Socket7 board and I had the same problem with the time. I was using Windows 98 and I'm sure it has nothing to do with the OS. I'm thinking it is the BIOS.

 

[Phoenix]

weird that's it. Yes socket 7, SIMMs and ISA bus.
The OS can't be, when my PI @ 133MHz was the fastest computer in its time(long ago) it doesn't had that problem, so I don't think the BIOS got degraded itself, maybe something else

 

[Iran]

try replacing your battery, its very possible that the new battery that you installed might be an old one check with a vom to be sure its around 3.0v, use an analog voltmeter cause digital voltmeter has a very high resistance causing the meter to register a much higher reading cause of less loading.some of the mobo has a test point that enables you to check the battery voltage while connected to the mobo, chk your manual if you dont know how to use a vom just ask somebody who does.

 

[Kirby]

My battery is registering around 3.3 volts in my BIOS, so that is not the problem. I don't have internet at the time, so it is critical since i can't use the Clock Sync

 

[Guest]

you did say you had a p1 133? well if so its an old comp. I too had a clock problem. a few weeks later the batery died and i had to go get a new one. maybe your battery is dying try replacing it.

 

[DarkShin]

Originally posted by slimshady165000
After replacing my CMOS battery

He already replaced the Battery.

 

[Esturk]

Originally posted by Kna127
you did say you had a p1 133? well if so its an old comp. I too had a clock problem. a few weeks later the batery died and i had to go get a new one. maybe your battery is dying try replacing it.

We have already determined that it is not the battery that is causing the problem.

 

[Guest]

sorry for that, I need to pay more attention