"What's the Time please - - - - - ?"

[Guest]

Lately I have noticed the clock in the Notification area to be about 15
minutes late (sometimes more).
From the time the PC was switched off (last night) till the 1st boot this
morning, it had lost 12 minutes. The time synchronization is set to auto.
Background: IntelP3: four years old : WinXP Pro SP2
If it is the CMOS battery, how do you remove it safely from the PC and
insert the new one? Any snags involved?

 

[Drew Tognola]

Twanny,

This should help.
http://www.monster-hardware.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=6

Drew

Lately I have noticed the clock in the Notification area to be about 15
minutes late (sometimes more).
From the time the PC was switched off (last night) till the 1st boot this
morning, it had lost 12 minutes. The time synchronization is set to auto.
Background: IntelP3: four years old : WinXP Pro SP2
If it is the CMOS battery, how do you remove it safely from the PC and
insert the new one? Any snags involved?

 

[_Vanguard_]

Lately I have noticed the clock in the Notification area to be about
15
minutes late (sometimes more).
From the time the PC was switched off (last night) till the 1st boot
this
morning, it had lost 12 minutes. The time synchronization is set to
auto.
Background: IntelP3: four years old : WinXP Pro SP2
If it is the CMOS battery, how do you remove it safely from the PC and
insert the new one? Any snags involved?
----------------------
Personal Note : a big "thanks" to all of you who helped me quite a lot
during this year: the advice was free but generously given. Just to
let you
know how much it is appreciated

How to remove it and what to replace it depends entirely on your
motherboard which you did not identify. There are way too many
motherboards being produced today and those that continue to exist from
before to bother wasting an exhaustive detailing of what to do on every
conceivable hardware. If you want to know what to do on YOUR
motherboard then tell *us* what it is, or go read its manual. "IntelP3"
only tells us that it is one of thousands of motherboards that used the
Intel Pentium 3 processor.

RTFM. You can probably find the manual on the web site of whomever
makes your motherboard. If they don't specifically mention battery
replacement, they should, at least, mention the battery in the
specifications.

http://www.computerhope.com/help/cmos.htm
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question319.htm

My mobo uses a CR-2032 wafer battery. Easy to replace, find it in lots
of local retail stores, and costs under $5 (http://snipurl.com/96l5).
Some old mobos had the battery inside a squarish box that combined the
battery and RTC (real-time clock) where some were socketed and others
were soldered. For the soldered ones, some mobos provided a 2-pin
header so you could connect an external battery and a jumper to select
from the internal/external battery source. I don't recall any P3 mobos
that still used the old RTC/battery box but then I wouldn't have bought
those, either.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Drew: the article was very straightforward.
Fortunately my mobo (VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C692BX ) is not of the "old"
types, so I should think it would be pretty straighforward.
Have a nice day!

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the links

How to remove it and what to replace it depends entirely on your
motherboard which you did not identify. There are way too many
motherboards being produced today and those that continue to exist from
before to bother wasting an exhaustive detailing of what to do on every
conceivable hardware. If you want to know what to do on YOUR
motherboard then tell *us* what it is, or go read its manual. "IntelP3"
only tells us that it is one of thousands of motherboards that used the
Intel Pentium 3 processor.

RTFM. You can probably find the manual on the web site of whomever
makes your motherboard. If they don't specifically mention battery
replacement, they should, at least, mention the battery in the
specifications.

http://www.computerhope.com/help/cmos.htm
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question319.htm

My mobo uses a CR-2032 wafer battery. Easy to replace, find it in lots
of local retail stores, and costs under $5 (http://snipurl.com/96l5).
Some old mobos had the battery inside a squarish box that combined the
battery and RTC (real-time clock) where some were socketed and others
were soldered. For the soldered ones, some mobos provided a 2-pin
header so you could connect an external battery and a jumper to select
from the internal/external battery source. I don't recall any P3 mobos
that still used the old RTC/battery box but then I wouldn't have bought
those, either.

 

[Plato]

My mobo uses a CR-2032 wafer battery. Easy to replace, find it in lots
of local retail stores, and costs under $5 (http://snipurl.com/96l5).

Or in your local supermarket for just a few bucks.

 

[Guest]

Tks Plato for the tip: sorry not to reply before:
was away from the PC for a couple of days.