Weird Date thing - Help !!

[nico3d]

Something very awkward has happened to me after I installed W2000 pro and it is the first time and it had never happened to me ever before.
The thing is that I installed it on a PII 350 - 256RAM.
Everything worked perfectly but, after finishing the installation the DATE/TIME was set to January 1 - 1601 !!!!!!!!!!!! my god !! the renaissance !!! can you belive that??
I change it, but everytime I restart it sets back to the middle Ages and there's a pop up error saying, naturally, that the DATE TIME is not set correctly.....
I checked the BIOS clock and date but they are correctly set....so I don't know what to do....
THis is unheard of....

can you help me??


Nico -- Nick

 

[HardWareBoss]

Wow that is weird. Last week mine was at Jan 1 2001 changed mine no problems. I'm running 2000 Pro. My toy AMD Athlon 500 Mhz. After you change date did you click apply?

 

[HardWareBoss]

Are you using Sp3 with 2000 Pro? If so try installing Sp4 see if that helps.

 

[nico3d]

well, of course I cliked apply....I would be an idiot if I hadn't clicked it !! heheh

And yeap, I just finished installing SP4 !!! and it keeps doing the same [-peep-].....it's unbelievable



Nico -- Nick

 

[HardWareBoss]

That is really weird. You had SP3 updated to SP4 still have the same date. Now if Teg would come on he is the 2000 Pro expert. It would stink if you had to reinstall windows again.

 

[HardWareBoss]

Just for the heck of it. Is your time zone set right?

 

[HardWareBoss]

Go to control panel click on Regional Options. See if time an date are what the should be. Date says Jan 1 1601 change it to 2003 see if that works.

 

[nico3d]

I tried all that, of course. As I told in the first post, there is no problem to change the date and set it right. But when I reboot or shut down or whatever, when I start it again, it sets itself back to "the reanaissance" 1601 !!!

this is the weirdest thing that has ever happened to me.
I installed the same W2000 pro in many other computers and it has always gone PERFECTLY....

I'm trying to find an answer on the hardware side, but at least I guess it can't be the battery otherwise the clock and date of the BIOS would have trouble but they are ok, they are both set right....

This is really puzzling....


Nico -- Nick

 

[khha4113]

The thing is that I installed it on a PII 350 - 256RAM.

Your system's hardwares might got Y2k bug!

Good or Bad have no meaning at all, depends on what your point of view is.

 

[HardWareBoss]

Have you got this date mess fixed?

 

[nico3d]

No, but I found the solution !!! thanks for asking...
below is what someone passed me. He found it right no the microsoft site. Read it so you know what to do, when your computer goes back to the renaissance... hehehe

" Windows 2000 Loses Date and Time on Every Boot "
>
> The information in this article applies to:
> Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
> Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
> Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
> This article was previously published under Q243883
>
> SYMPTOMS
> After you install Windows 2000 and reboot, you may
> receive a message stating that the system's date and
> time are invalid. When this occurs, the date may be
> set for January 1, 1601, or another invalid date, and
> the clock may be counting the time from 12:00 A.M.
>
> If you reset the date and time correctly and boot to
> another operating system (such as Microsoft Windows
> NT, Microsoft Windows 95, or Microsoft Windows 98),
> the date and time remain accurate after rebooting.
> However, the problem occurs whenever you boot into
> Windows 2000.
>
> CAUSE
> This behavior can occur if the computer's BIOS is not
> 100 percent Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
> (ACPI) compliant. The BIOS may contain invalid entries
> in the HalpFixedAcpiDescTable table. Windows 2000 is
> the only operating system that relies on the ACPI BIOS
> entries to be valid.
>
> RESOLUTION
> Contact the computer's manufacturer to inquire about
> the availability of a flash BIOS update that resolves
> this issue. If available, apply the update according
> to the manufacturer's instructions.

Amazing huh ???

Nico -- Nick

 

[chandanarahul]

hey good to hear that u got it figured out. anyway u got urself a time machine for some time

How was it to be in 1601?

 

[HardWareBoss]

Nice of Micro$!!! I wonder where they came up with the Jan 1 1601 date. You would think it would set you to Jan 1 1901!

 

[ClutchWorks]

Nice how M$ blames the hardware. Software issue?????.... no way. Hahahaha

 

[jihiggs]

maybe your bios battery is dead. i cant believe no one has stated something that obvious after all this time.

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