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krosado
Jul 15, 2009, 06:57 AM
The weirdest thing continues to happen- every time I restart my computer the date and time changes to Feb 2004- does this mean I have a virus?

stevetcg
Jul 15, 2009, 07:21 AM
One possibility is that your motherboard's battery is dead and it cannot maintain the time when its not powered on.

Stratmando
Jul 15, 2009, 07:21 AM
Has this been happening for more than 29 days? you don't mention the days changing or not.

krosado
Jul 15, 2009, 07:26 AM
Don't remember the exact date when I noticed the date and time change but I'm going to say maybe 2 weeks now.

It keeps going to Feb 2004- don't remember the DATE but I can check when I get home as I'm at work and I'm referring to my home computer.

krosado
Jul 16, 2009, 04:34 PM
The time on the computer is now 2:31 am Feb 23, 2004 and I just changed it YESTERDAY-7:33 pm on July 16th

Stratmando
Jul 16, 2009, 04:51 PM
See if it goes to the 24th tomorrow, Your hitting Apply after setting clock? Its strange.

iLLyriC
Aug 10, 2009, 08:48 AM
One possibility is that your motherboard's battery is dead and it cannot maintain the time when its not powered on.

Open your PC case and look afer a small clock-like battery, that's the problem the battery is dead. You should ask for a new one and carefuly change it, finally change the time to the correct and reboot, it should work