pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk (Jakob G}rdsted) (02/06/91)
The clock in my RAM expansion(A500) works like shit it does ! I can't tell you any hardware stuff about it, but it's in a 2.5 MB exp. The hardware thing isn't so important anyway, because it is a general experience of mine. Most of the people I personally know in possession of RAM's with clocks have problems. Everywhere I ask/hear about this the answer I get is "Uhh Hahygh, it's got to be prublems with a virus hahum", and I know these can cause this, but it is out of the question here. (Try turning the Amiga on after fifty years, put a virgin Workbench 1.2 in the drive, let it boot, set the clock and save it to the batterybackedup clock, then switching your amiga off for 1/1000 second. Sometimes, the clock shows the right time when booting again, but more often, it does not. If I switch it off for a short time, only part of the info is disstorted, i.e. the date is right, but not the hours, or the hours are wrong, but the minutes are okay. The longer I wait, the more it is likely, that the clock replies with the famous (?) sometimein1978 time. How can it be, that parts of the time can survive ? It seems unlikely, it should be stored in a way that could cause this. I suspect that the rechargeable battery is sick like nothing else. But I don't know. I use rendering programs a lot, having my Amiga on for several days, so I fail to see why the battery should not be recharged. First, I suspected a virus. So I have tried a lot of things, but most convincing for me A-got-to-be-clear-all-new-Workbench. Is it a general experience of other Amigausers, that batterybackedup clocks don't work well ? I don't personally believe this, for was this ever the case, it would have been quickly and easily fixed. HELP! HEEAELLP ! HAEELAEAEAEAEAAEALLP! I want my clock to work right ARARARRRRHGH. hm . (Huh ? is it not mail ?)
cpc@czaeap.UUCP (Chris Cebelenski) (02/08/91)
In article <1991Feb5.182747.11172@daimi.aau.dk> pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk (Jakob G}rdsted) writes: >The clock in my RAM expansion(A500) works like shit it does ! I can't tell >you any hardware stuff about it, but it's in a 2.5 MB exp. The hardware >thing isn't so important anyway, because it is a general experience of >mine. Most of the people I personally know in possession of RAM's >with clocks have problems. > Everywhere I ask/hear about this the answer I get is "Uhh Hahygh, it's >got to be prublems with a virus hahum", and I know these can cause this, >but it is out of the question here. (Try turning the Amiga on after fifty >years, put a virgin Workbench 1.2 in the drive, let it boot, set the clock >and save it to the batterybackedup clock, then switching your amiga off >for 1/1000 second. Sometimes, the clock shows the right time when booting >again, but more often, it does not. If I switch it off for a short time, >only part of the info is disstorted, i.e. the date is right, but not >the hours, or the hours are wrong, but the minutes are okay. The longer I >wait, the more it is likely, that the clock replies with the famous (?) >sometimein1978 time. How can it be, that parts of the time can survive ? >It seems unlikely, it should be stored in a way that could cause this. > I suspect that the rechargeable battery is sick like nothing else. >But I don't know. I use rendering programs a lot, having my Amiga on >for several days, so I fail to see why the battery should not be recharged. > First, I suspected a virus. So I have tried a lot of things, but >most convincing for me A-got-to-be-clear-all-new-Workbench. > Is it a general experience of other Amigausers, that batterybackedup >clocks don't work well ? I don't personally believe this, for was this >ever the case, it would have been quickly and easily fixed. > >HELP! HEEAELLP ! HAEELAEAEAEAEAAEALLP! I want my clock to work >right ARARARRRRHGH. hm >. >(Huh ? is it not mail ?) >#! rnews 1803 >Path: aminet!gdc!portal!apple!olivea!uunet!orca!javelin.es.c -- Ignoring other technical inaccuracies in the post above, the poster does have the general problem well documented. I have owned SEVERAL of the A500 "gary expansion" systems, and NONE of them will behave correctly when it comes to clock setup after a cold boot. It will survive a warm boot properly, but the second you shut down and restart, PHOOEY, it will seemingly ramdomly shuffle/change time and date bits. I have spent lots of $$ and time talking with various companies (most notably Expansion Systems, who by the way, has been very responsive to this problem) but no solutions have presented themselves. My standard A501 works properly. ========================================================================== Chris Cebelenski UUCP: portal.com!gdc!aminet!czaeap!cpc The Red Mage Internet: czaeap!cpc@aminet.gdc.portal.com GEnie: C.CEBELENSKI // "Amiga - The way REAL people compute" "Better dead than mellow" \X/ ========================================================================== NOTE: Due to brain dead mailers, this message can *NOT* be REPLIED to, to reach me you MUST send a NEW message. Sorry!