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  • Dec 17, 2008, 08:17 PM
    jgoocher
    Laptop won't hold system time
    I've replaced the cmos battery but the time/date aren't being held when the laptop is powered down or put in sleep. Don't know if this is related but it started happening when I let MS install Silverlight and that installation failed.

    I talked to HP and they thought it was the cmos battery (laptop JUST went out of warranty! Of course). So I got the battery and installed it... nada (don't panic, I do have an IT background and have built servers from the ground up.)

    Driving me crazy!! Help
  • Dec 18, 2008, 09:00 AM
    StaticFX

    Couple things...
    1) there is malware that does this , so just for fun.. download/run Malwarebytes

    2) there is a battery called an RTC battery. It's a lithium battery just for keeping the clock running... I don't know anything more than that about RTC's
  • Dec 19, 2008, 06:53 PM
    jgoocher
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by StaticFX View Post
    couple things...
    1) there is malware that does this , so just for fun.. download/run Malwarebytes

    2) there is a battery called an RTC battery. its a lithium battery just for keeping the clock running... i dont know anything more than that about RTC's

    Thanks, I will run the malware removal tool and see if that helps. The RTC battery is the one that I replaced... nothing there.

    Thanks again for replying
  • Jan 6, 2009, 06:05 PM
    chaosmaster1

    My suggestion is doing a extensive cleanup including the registry and if that don't work then it could be a minor bios setting boot into the bios and load setup defaults and see if that works
  • Jan 6, 2009, 09:20 PM
    jgoocher
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by chaosmaster1 View Post
    my suggestion is doing a extensive cleanup including the registry and if that don't work then it could be a minor bios setting boot into the bios and load setup defaults and see if that works


    Thanks, nothing I have tried so far has worked so this is definitely worth a shot! I set the defaults and will see what happens... Jayne
  • Jan 6, 2009, 09:28 PM
    MarkwithaK

    I have this same issue with my Dell laptop.
  • Jan 6, 2009, 09:40 PM
    jgoocher
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by MarkwithaK View Post
    I have this same issue with my Dell laptop.

    I don't know if it's hardware or software issue. Have tried everything software related that I can find, next step is customer support with HP... hopefully it's not a major hardware thing, the laptop is only 18 mo. Old! And out of warranty!

    Good luck
  • Jan 6, 2009, 09:56 PM
    chaosmaster1

    Have you removed or touched the clear cmos jumper maybe you have a jumper out of place near the cmos that every time power is off it resets check the jumpers
  • Jan 6, 2009, 10:03 PM
    jgoocher
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by chaosmaster1 View Post
    have you removed or touched the clear cmos jumper maybe you have a jumper out of place near the cmos that everytime power is off it resets check the jumpers

    Not familiar with that... I've worked on a lot of servers, never a laptop... I'll power down and see what I can find... thanks
  • Jan 6, 2009, 10:17 PM
    jgoocher
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by chaosmaster1 View Post
    have you removed or touched the clear cmos jumper maybe you have a jumper out of place near the cmos that everytime power is off it resets check the jumpers

    Powered down, looked inside and it would appear that I don't know what I'm looking for! <<Grin>>

    I unplugged the cmos battery, I don't see jumpers of any kind... hmmm, maybe that's the problem?
  • Jan 7, 2009, 09:38 AM
    chaosmaster1

    Try a new battery
  • Jan 7, 2009, 09:44 AM
    jgoocher
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by chaosmaster1 View Post
    try a new battery


    I replaced the rtc battery a couple weeks ago, are you saying this one might also be bad so try another new one?

    Thanks
  • Jan 7, 2009, 10:16 AM
    chaosmaster1

    Yea cause you can buy new batterries and they be dead from sitting so long on the shelf if they are cheap buy at least 2 of them
  • Jan 7, 2009, 10:58 AM
    jgoocher
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by chaosmaster1 View Post
    yea cause you can buy new batterries and they be dead from sitting so long on the shelf if they are cheap buy at least 2 of them

    Thanks, I will do that!

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