Error After Replacing CMOS Battery

zeroslash

zeroslash

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My CMOS battery started to act up, so I decided to replace it. After making sure I got the right battery (CR2032), I installed it. Now, I'm starting to have errors, mainly network ones. I can't connect to time.windows.com nor any other time server, and I can't connect using HTTPS; HTTP works fine. Apparently, any secure certificate cannot be certified for an unknown reason.

I knew what removing the CMOS battery would do, but it's been in my computer for around five years. I just want to know what's up.

If someone can help me out, I'd be happy.

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Set the correct date and time manually. You are getting the errors because the date reset when removing the cmos battery.
 
Huh, that's very weird. Why would my computer need my current time in order to certify an HTTPS certificate? I'm just curious to know.
 
zeroslash said:
Huh, that's very weird. Why would my computer need my current time in order to certify an HTTPS certificate? I'm just curious to know.
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I'm just guessing here, but is it possible that since the computer date was incorrect, it was reading these certificates as "expired" or out of date? I vaguely remember having the same errors when i first changed my CMOS a couple years back (which was fixed by putting the corre3ct date), and if I remember, the error said something like "certificate expired."
 
zeroslash said:
Huh, that's very weird. Why would my computer need my current time in order to certify an HTTPS certificate? I'm just curious to know.
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onipar said:
I'm just guessing here, but is it possible that since the computer date was incorrect, it was reading these certificates as "expired" or out of date? I vaguely remember having the same errors when i first changed my CMOS a couple years back (which was fixed by putting the corre3ct date), and if I remember, the error said something like "certificate expired."
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Yes, its all about the correct date(month, day, year) actually, not too much of the actual time of day. It's been like this for quite some time. Https is secured so thats why everything has to be perfect. Certain other issues will happen if the date is off.
 
johnb35 said:
Yes, its all about the correct date(month, day, year) actually, not too much of the actual time of day. It's been like this for quite some time. Https is secured so thats why everything has to be perfect. Certain other issues will happen if the date is off.
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Ah, that makes sense. I wouldn't think HTTPS would look at the time of day since it varies due to there being no real way of synchronizing every computer together to the same time.

Anyway, my computer's just fine now, and it seems to be running even better. Thanks for your help!
 
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