Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!mcdchg!ditka!dasys1!pechter From: pechter@dasys1.UUCP (Bill Pechter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Re: PC6300 battery Message-ID: <4810@dasys1.UUCP> Date: 4 Jun 88 16:29:28 GMT References: <25253@bbn.COM> <10107@mcdchg.UUCP> Reply-To: pechter@dasys1.UUCP (Bill Pechter) Organization: Datamerica Systems, NYC Lines: 24 In article <10107@mcdchg.UUCP> heiby@mcdchg.UUCP (Ron Heiby) writes: >I have been having trouble with my PC 6300 losing time, but have >discounted the battery, as I leave my system on 24 hr/day. Are there >any other possibilities for rectifying a slow clock? >-- >Ron Heiby, heiby@mcdchg.UUCP Moderator: comp.newprod & comp.unix >"Failure is one of the basic Freedoms!" The Doctor (in Robots of Death) If you're running AT&T's MS-DOS version 3.2 it's possibly a software bug! They read the clock on boot and write back to it -- often losing as much as 59 seconds per boot. I was losing a few minutes per week because of reboting during software development. I recommend a file called biopatch16.arc available from the Right Choice BBS in NJ (201) 974-8317 and possibly from AT&T's support bbs (201)769-5616. The program patches the boot code in the bios to eliminate this bug -- which HAS BEEN reported to AT&T (and they are doing NOTHING about it. (Their hardware techs didn't know and were going to swap my motherboard to fix the problem -- they were getting deluged with motherboard swaps after v3.2 hit the 6300's (and 6300+'s). -- Bill Pechter {sun!hoptoad,cmcl2!phri}!dasys1!pechter USnail 103 Governors Road, Lakewood, NJ 08701 AT&T 201-370-0709 Evenings