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When i turn on my pc, some weird things start happening. The thing is as follows:
"On the screen, i see that the value of RAM is calculated, that is it starts showing 1MB and continually goes and stops at 512MB in increments of 1. after that it shows the following message: '163-time and date not set. This may be the result of loss in battery power. Set the correct date and time using your operating system. If this problem persists you may need to replace the onboard battery.''

Even after I set time and date using operating system [xpsp2], upon restart it again shows this message.

Please help as I do not know what to do.:confused:
 
Setting the time in windows doesnt help the bios. You need to go into the bios and set the date and time too.
 
Sometimes you hit the delete key or like the F1 when booting. When you first boot, look at the bottom of the screen and see if it says something like Press a certain key to enter bios. Set the time, then press save and exit.
 
StrangleHold said:
Sometimes you hit the delete key or like the F1 when booting. When you first boot, look at the bottom of the screen and see if it says something like Press a certain key to enter bios. Set the time, then press save and exit.
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thanks a lot.. i have fixed the prolem with your opinion.....
 
If the time is off in the bios, just setting the time right in windows doesnt change the bios, you have to manually set the bios time. Windows 98 that calculated its hardware by the bios would actually reset windows time to whatever the bios was set at.
 
2000 and up keep track of time on there own time, or in XP and up it will connect to the net and keep the time updated. and like above will even tell you if the two times are different, Windows vs. Bios.

Windows ME and back kept track of time by what the bios was set at. If the bios time was wrong, you could set the time right in windows, reboot and it would reset it to the bios time.
 
Right, and we're dealing with XP SP2 here. The network time sync is an option in which Windows (or other OSes) will sync to an NTP and then update the system's clock to that time.

I have thought for years that the internal clock was modified by Windows or whatever OS you had on it. The BIOS and Windows both read the same information from the clock.
 
The bios time is on its own and not influenced by windows.

98 had it but not installed by default, but ACPI is the reason 2000 and above can keep the right time regardless of the bios time, thats why they will tell you when you boot that there is a time discrepancy between the two. And sometimes even freak out:D

98 and back with APM kept windows time adjusted to whatever the bios was set at.
 
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Listen man, you can have the time set right in XP, reboot go into the bios and reset it, which causes the bios time to reset to what ever is was at default. Boot XP and the time in windows will stay right. You will get a pop up telling you there is a difference and might even get some power saving issues or just plain windows issues like above.

If you did the above with windows 98 it would just reset 98s time to what ever the bios was set at when booting. Then you would start getting 98 errors because it knew it could not produce a file dated June 1996 after a Oct. 1998 file it did 2 minutes before. The reason for the Y2K scare because of the bios resetting itself on Dec 31 1999 at midnight
 
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OK. I'm not sure if we are talking about the same thing here. The Real Time Clock is what BOTH the OS (regardless of which) and the BIOS read from and modify. If you change the time from within the BIOS, Windows will recognize the new time without error. If you set the time to something different in the OS, it will show up in the BIOS in the same manner.

The reason for the Y2K scare was that some old system's RTC (Real Time Clock) were only programmed to work with two digits - not four digit dates. When 2000 rolled around, the clock would set itself back to 00. So the computer would think it was 1900 instead. Because most systems were not capable of operating in a time well before they were made, they would crash.
 
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The bios time is on its own and not influenced by windows.
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Um...NO.

98 had it but not installed by default, but ACPI is the reason 2000 and above can keep the right time regardless of the bios time, thats why they will tell you when you boot that there is a time discrepancy between the two. And sometimes even freak out:D
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Wrong. Power settings in the BIOS have nothing to do with setting or modifying the time in the BIOS or Windows. NOTHING.

98 and back with APM kept windows time adjusted to whatever the bios was set at.
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What? Advanced power management has nothing to do with time settings, so therefore it is WRONG.
 
DCIScouts said:
Um...NO.



Wrong. Power settings in the BIOS have nothing to do with setting or modifying the time in the BIOS or Windows. NOTHING.



What? Advanced power management has nothing to do with time settings, so therefore it is WRONG.
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Zatharus said:
Well said, Sensei. Hai!

Wax on, misinformation off.
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You all ought to know I didnt say that dumb stuff, I have been in Nashville since the 14th, My son has been staying here watching my daughters little girl that says with me. Going to get to the bottom of it, if it was him posting or somebody he was letting in the house. Going to have to check some other post since the 14th to see what else they posted.

Sorry.
 
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