[Ham-Computers] XP Clock Issues

[Herb Gerhardt]

The last time I had a clock issue with one of my laptops which I fought for
weeks, it turned out to be a bad internal lithium battery.  I checked the
voltage of that battery and it was good, I replaced that battery with one I
had kicking around which also showed a good voltage and that had no effect.
I finally broke down and bought a brand new battery and installed that new
battery and my clock has worked fine ever since.

What I learned was that checking voltage on a lithium button battery can
mislead you.  The voltage might seem OK but the current that battery can put
out is just not up to snuff, so I would suggest you look for an internal
battery in your computer and just replace it to see if that solves your
problem....


Herb, KB7UVC
NW APRS Group, West Sound Coordinator
Our WEB Site:  http://www.nwaprs.info


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ham-computers-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:ham-computers-
> bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jay AD5PE
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 10:20 AM
> To: Computers (or other) used for amateur radio, communications,
> orexperimenting
> Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] XP Clock Issues
> 
> It showed up far down the list of received emails, with a "received time"
of 12:31
> AM.  Looks like 12 hours slow now.
> 
> That could be sever time, not your system, though.