year changing to 1970

[Guest]

all of a sudden the year on the workstation goes to 1970.

if you change the year to 2007 and hit apply it goes right back to 1970.

I have repllaced the CMOS battery and made sure the date in the BIOS is
correct.

still the windows date is at 1970.

what can i do to fix this?

Help.

 

[bud]

all of a sudden the year on the workstation goes to 1970.

if you change the year to 2007 and hit apply it goes right back to 1970.

I have repllaced the CMOS battery and made sure the date in the BIOS is
correct.

still the windows date is at 1970.

what can i do to fix this?

Help.

Might be a silly question because you're asking in a XP group but are you
using XP on your workstation? I ask because some older Mac workstations had
this problem when they were upgraded to newer operating systems.

 

[Guest]

yes windows Xp pro sp2

Might be a silly question because you're asking in a XP group but are you
using XP on your workstation? I ask because some older Mac workstations had
this problem when they were upgraded to newer operating systems.

 

[Roger]

yes windows Xp pro sp2

 

[Jim]

all of a sudden the year on the workstation goes to 1970.

if you change the year to 2007 and hit apply it goes right back to 1970.

I have repllaced the CMOS battery and made sure the date in the BIOS is
correct.

still the windows date is at 1970.

what can i do to fix this?

Help.

Well, since XP is mostly written in C, and since C date routines normally
report 1970 when no other time is available, I would suspect that the clock
on your computer is broken (more broken that just needing a new battery).
It is time to take it to a computer mechanic.
Jim

 

[Roger]

Well, since XP is mostly written in C, and since C date routines normally
report 1970 when no other time is available, I would suspect that the
clock on your computer is broken (more broken that just needing a new
battery). It is time to take it to a computer mechanic.
Jim

If you Google > Clock problems computer you will see lots of advice from
forums etc