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The weirdest problem...

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thEnEuRoMancER

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My old computer (Compaq Deskpro) has a chronic problem: in Win98 every day or two the system date year suddenly changed back to 1993. System time remained the same, also the month and the day. Compaq support couldn't help here.

Now I've got a brand new box and the same problem is occuring after 3 days of use. I can't think of any other logical reasons but:

- it is some virus' fault, a virus InoculateIT cannot detect
- it is some software's fault (software that I'm using on both computers)

New computer is connected to the Internet through Wingate server on old computer. The system date change doesn't happen on both computers simultaneously and I don't think Wingate is configured as time server.

Can anybody help here?
 
It's not you problem. My sister bought a Compaq and the time would always change back to what it was when it originally came. I had to change the time back like every other hour. I eventually got fed up and changed it in the bios, but that still didn't work! But it didn't matter since daylight savings changed our time to match the compaq's. I still up to this date have no idea what is causing the time to change back. I just blame it on stupid Compaq.
 
This usually happens because BIOS battery is about to die 🙁. Just go ahead and replace it with any standard cell battery and you should be back in business in no time 🙂
 
I don't think it's the battery. It's a new box and even if the battery was bad then why doesn't it change the date back to 1.1.1980 but to 1993 (exactly as the old machine). It just doesn't make sense.

Oh well, I suppose I'd just like to see someone write: I've had the exact same problem as you and it turned out it was the insert_name_of_program_or_virus_causing_date_change_here 🙂
 
your BIOS goes to 1980 is when your batter completely dead. I've seen this happening before quite a few times, and battery was the cause in every single one of them
 
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