Bad battery on mobo?

[dillon5]

I leave computer on for the day and when I return from work my clock in bottem right hand corner has lost an hour or so and system acts as if not enough memory to run anything. I simple reboot clears up problems. I thought it might be due to a "memory leak" on Win98se and I installed "fix" from Microsoft but that did not clear problem.
My next thought was battery going bad on mobo ( just a thought ) . Any suggestions?

 

[khtm]

The CMOS battery wouldn't affect the fact that the "system acts as if not enough memory to run anything". Win9x is notorious for keeping bad time, and this is a well-known MS bug, but a whole hour each day is quite excessive. Replacing the CMOS battery might fix this. As far as your memory leak, do you have a spare stick of RAM to see if this fixes the problem?

There's apps you can download to free up memory, too -> FreeMem is one of them.


-khtm-

 

[dillon5]

I'll try swapping out the ram and seeing if it makes a diff. Thanks for your input