jdpierc@PacBell.COM (Jerry D. Pierce) (03/30/91)
I broke down and bought a Toshiba T2000SX about a week ago, thinking that I wouldn't have any problems because Toshiba is pretty much THE name brand for laptops... I noticed that the real time clock seemed to be losing quite a bit of time. At first I wasn't certain that I hadn't just mis-set the time, so I started keeping a log. At 8:00am this morning, I set the real time clock against "POPCORN". At 8:00pm that same evening, I checked the real time clock against "POPCORN" and found that the clock had lost 35+ minutes. The T2000SX was fully charged this morning, and was used about 6 hours with the charger plugged in nearly all of the time. I tried to call Toshiba this morning to see if anyone else had reported a similar problem, but they were closed because it was Good Friday... Anybody have a similar problem? Everything else seems to be working just fine. Jerry Pierce jdpierc@PacBell.COM
jdpierc@PacBell.COM (Jerry D. Pierce) (03/30/91)
I wrote a bit earlier: > >I noticed that the real time clock seemed to be losing quite a >bit of time. At first I wasn't certain that I hadn't just mis-set >the time, so I started keeping a log. At 8:00am this morning, >I set the real time clock against "POPCORN". At 8:00pm that >same evening, I checked the real time clock against "POPCORN" >and found that the clock had lost 35+ minutes. > >The T2000SX was fully charged this morning, and was used about >6 hours with the charger plugged in nearly all of the time. > Now comes the clincher. I decided to run test3 (the setup program) and it showed THE CORRECT DATE AND TIME. I exitted from test3 and did a "now" and a "time" and both show the incorrect time!!! Sheesh. I then rebooted the machine, and did a "now" and "time" and it shows the correct time. Now the only thing I can figure is that the DOS pseudo-clock gets the date/time from the real time clock at boot, and then it's on it's own. This is nothing more than a guess, mind you, but can anyone else offer a better explanation? Please!!?!?! :-) Interesting little problem... Time to crack open the manuals again. Jerry Pierce jdpierc@PacBell.COM