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

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

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Originally Posted by 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. its a lithium battery just for keeping the clock running... i dont know anything more than that about RTC's

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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

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

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Originally Posted by 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

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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

I have this same issue with my Dell laptop.

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Originally Posted by MarkwithaK

I have this same issue with my Dell laptop.

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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

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

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Originally Posted by chaosmaster1

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

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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

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Originally Posted by chaosmaster1

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

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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?

Try a new battery

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try a new battery

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

Thanks

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

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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

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Thanks, I will do that!