clock not running at all

Help. If you look at my previous post on this topic of "clock running slow" I detailed my concerns and the fact that I had changed the cmos battery.
Rocket works great. From the articles I appreciate the febile
nature of the computer clock.
However the clock seems to be running exceptionally slowly and being 1/2 an hour slow 2 hours after resetting the clock with Rocket.
I have been reassured this is nothing and not to be concerned.
Should I be concerned ? Could I lose my bios ?

 

Hi schamish,

If this "Loss of time" occured in DOS at (A.) prompt (see mflynn post) I would be suspicious of a hardware problem/failure. Some window apps/heavy processor use at times can influence time clock. But idle in DOS rules out any app association.
(BIOS question)--- Any memory requiring voltage from the battery should be protected, assuming the hardware problem is not interelated to the time clock.

 

will boot from a: dos tonight

Dennis,
I will take mflynn's advice and boot manually from a dos disc and check the time loss.

Stephen

 

ran on dos time loss

Dennis,
with Win 98 I "restarted in dos mode ". The computer ran in this dos mode for 6 hours. There was 4 minutes of time loss.
What next ?

thanks

 

schamish

Lets keep this to the original thread easier on everyone trying to help you.

I will post there!

mike

 

----ALSO POSTED IN ORIGINAL THREAD----

As previous posters have suggesed, "perfect time" is not a requirement (in most cases). For your two test, there was a very wide difference...
In windows = 30 min loss/2 hr = 6 hr loss/24 hr = Very frustrating.
In Dos = 4 min loss/6 hour = 16 min loss/24 hr = nuisance.
For some reason your RTC is not performing correctly. Unless you require "time launch apps" or you begin to have "bootup problems" will require you to pursue the problem. The two time checks could suggest you have a app in windows that is stepping on your clock time. Read this post from the Langalist for RTC problems and NEXT solution steps.