BelgianBoy Posted September 8, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2004 breaking news....... spoke to my compu-shop guy earlier who also said it might be the internal battery that is fucking things up..... possible ? BB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
check_bin_krap Posted September 8, 2004 Report Share Posted September 8, 2004 BelgianBoy said:breaking news....... spoke to my compu-shop guy earlier who also said it might be the internal battery that is fucking things up..... possible ? BB I saw that with a server just now. It loses the setup settings every time its turned off, battery is dead. Yep, possible. Easy to find out, does it remember the date and time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BelgianBoy Posted September 8, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2004 Yep, possible. Easy to find out, does it remember the date and time? Yes, but since first day, its always 2-3 minutes slow....... And when I upgrade online with www.worldclock.com or similar, it slows down after a few minutes BB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
check_bin_krap Posted September 8, 2004 Report Share Posted September 8, 2004 BelgianBoy said:Yep, possible. Easy to find out, does it remember the date and time? Yes, but since first day, its always 2-3 minutes slow....... And when I upgrade online with www.worldclock.com or similar, it slows down after a few minutes BB So its not dead battery. If that was the case, it would reset itself to 1970 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlton68 Posted September 8, 2004 Report Share Posted September 8, 2004 When your laptop in on while you update date and time and it is still on an hour later while the clock is late already, then this is not the CMOS battery - cause the power doesn't come from the battery when the laptop is on. Come to think of it, unless you pull the power plug and remove the laptop battery the CMOS battery is not used and it doesn't matter if it's flat. When the battery is dead then the bios would set back date and time to a date back in the past (mostly date when the bios was released). And it would tell you something like 'CMOS error - enter setup'. Dead CMOS battery would not lead to SMART errors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 8, 2004 Report Share Posted September 8, 2004 agree. S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is not foolproof (So what is) but a pretty reliable indicator of serious hard drive problems. It's got shit to do with the battery. Try this for a start. http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/perf/qual/features_SMART.htm AND QUIT RUNNING IT !!!!!!! If you bust up a piece inside and she won't spin anymore, figure $500 and UP to retrieve your data in a 'Clean Lab' And IMO.. find a new compu-shop guy (arghhhh ... now lets see the hard drive is giving self diagnosed error messages..... dahhhhh ......... must be the battery. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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