button@eecs.nwu.edu (Patrick Button) (03/15/90)
Hi,
I have an Epson Equity II+ with a 40Meg hard drive and it seems
like the internal clock slows down about five minutes everyday. I'll
set the time right one day and three days later when I switch it on
again, the clock is at least fifteen minutes slower. It's not really
affecting me since I don't use the clock anyway but it is annoying.
I'm wondering if it's the battery that's gone bad or something else.
It's still under warranty but I haven't found the time to bring it
back yet. I plan to do so in the next few weeks. Meanwhile, I'll
appreciate it if someone can suggest the causes to this. Thanks.
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Patrick Button
Northwestern University Internet:button@delta.eecs.nwu.edu
============================================================================= dold@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold) (03/15/90)
in article <3580026@eecs.nwu.edu>, button@eecs.nwu.edu (Patrick Button) says: > I have an Epson Equity II+ with a 40Meg hard drive and it seems > like the internal clock slows down about five minutes everyday. I'll Try to observe if it is gradually losing time, or if it is consistently off by the same amount. I drove myself nuts trying to figure out why my system was gaining 15 minutes a day, until I discovered that the change was sudden, not gradual. A PC Networking package was setting the time to what it thought was correct! The Epson PC-XT clone had it's own clock, with driver. Maybe you aren't resetting the Real Time Clock when you adjust the DOS time. -- --- Clarence A Dold - dold@tsmiti.Convergent.COM (408) 435-5293 ...pyramid!ctnews!tsmiti!dold FAX (408) 435-3105 P.O.Box 6685, San Jose, CA 95150-6685 MS#10-007