Rob Mahurin wrote: > > John Foster wrote: > > > Most modern Motherboards have a small rechargeable battery on them that > > hold enough power to keep the hardware clock set to the correct time, > > when the system is powered off. It appears that your battery is > > degrading and may need to be replaced. > > But it's right when it boots: if I hit F1 and check in the CMOS before lilo > loads, > the clock is accurate. If I go into Windows through lilo, the clock is > accurate > there. But when I load a linux kernel, it gets reset. (rebuilding a kernel > from > scratch is on my list of things to do today now.) That's why I didn't think > initally > that it was the battery. Would a dying battery cause this kind of behavior? _____________________________________________________________ NO! I assumed that the problem was universal regardless of OS. Since that is not the case you are correct to compile a new kernel.
-- John Foster AdVance-Computing Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED]