After I moved my hardware to a new case I got a BSOD. This
was cured by removing and reseating cards. Since I was able
to boot to safe mode, I looked through device manager. The
drivers fro many motherboard devices had driver dates of
1/1/1601.
This includes Com 1 and 2, LPT, APCI and floppy controller.
Everthing seems to be working normally. The dates are still
there although the version numbers are reasonable.I have no
idea when tnis could have occurred.
How could this have happened?
Is it worth removing the devices and letting windows
reinstall them?

Thanks for help with this mystery.

"EdC" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in news:3ce901c3ccb4
$31940670$(E-Mail Removed):

> After I moved my hardware to a new case I got a BSOD. This
> was cured by removing and reseating cards. Since I was able
> to boot to safe mode, I looked through device manager. The
> drivers fro many motherboard devices had driver dates of
> 1/1/1601.
> This includes Com 1 and 2, LPT, APCI and floppy controller.
> Everthing seems to be working normally. The dates are still
> there although the version numbers are reasonable.I have no
> idea when tnis could have occurred.
> How could this have happened?
> Is it worth removing the devices and letting windows
> reinstall them?
>
> Thanks for help with this mystery.
>

Sounds like the system date got set to 1/1/1601 although I didn't know
any BIOS would support that date. I don't expect it will cause any
problems since almost nothing on a computer looks at the file date.

Leonard Severt

Windows 2000 Server Setup Team

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