[ltp] date forgotten at boot despite fresh CR2032 battery

Robin Becker linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 09 May 2014 10:24:26 +0100


On 10/05/2014 07:28, cr wrote:
> On Thursday 08 May 2014 18:43:21 Connor Behan wrote:
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>> I'd be interested to hear if you fix this, because my brother's A22m
>> behaves in the same way.
>
> My R40 (which my wife uses for playing casino games on) does the same thing -
> its date reverts to 1-1-80 and I have to change the date in the BIOS before it
> will boot.   And it has a new CMOS battery, first thing I replaced.
>
>
is it possible some bios setting got reset when the battery initially failed?
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Robin Becker