Dell 4500 can't seem to keep time!

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Replace the battery. If you are not only losing the date and time,
but the configuration settings the battery is the most likely culprit.
For a $3 investment it's not worth the time and trouble wondering if
the battery is failing prematurely. Any computer store or Radio Shack
will carry a replacement.



On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:44:08 -0700, "Jeff M. Ingram"
<ingramje29@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I've got a Dell 4500 that I've had for almost 2 years and I've noticed in
>the last few days that it can't seem to keep time. I"ve had to reset the
>clock twice.
>
>Could it be that the battery on my motherboard is starting to loose juice
>and fail? This system really isnt' THAT old! But I've remember that it
>did used to forget my drive settings from time to time. I used to have an
>IDE and an SATA drive drive installed and they would switch drive positions
>(master/slave - primary/secondary or something like that). I'd save the
>settings all would work fine for a few days and then all of a sudden it
>wouldn't boot! I'd have to go back into the system setup and change it
>again. And then again and again and then again.......
>
>Do I have a battery going lame on me?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jeff
>