wierd date problem...

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"" wrote:
> Started up my PC this afternoon and double-clicked an *.mp3
> track to listen
> to it, and WMP 10 informed me that because my system date was
> set to the
> year 2080 there might be a problem !
>
> So I changed the year back to 2005 ...any idea as to why my
> system date year
> "changed itself" to 2080 ? My XP sp2 is fully up to date, so
> is my
> firewall, a/v and anti-spyware sweeps. It's a full time job
> stopping "s**t"
> getting into ones PC but, I like to kid myself that I do a
> pretty good job.
>
> ....mmm ! my firewall just informed me that WinMX is
> attempting to access
> the internet and I haven't even got it running ! I'm off to
> look into that
> now !
>
> regards, Richard

The date and/or time sudderly for no aparent reason changing is a
indiator that the mother borad battary is diying or dead, it causes no
real problems (asuming your computer hardware will function properly
with factory default BIOS settings) other then it will have to look
for all avalable drives and every time you turn it on the the date and
time will be wrong. You should open the computer look for what sort of
batary is in the motherboard (prefrably remove it) find one that
matches it and put the new one in, if you do not know what you are
doing (or scared of the insides of a computer) you should ask some one
who dose know what there doing to change the battary (if your not
carfull this simple operation can kill your motherboard).

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