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over the last couple years I have had a worsening problem
with time
slippage in my XP1000. I didn't know what was goin' on.
SRM for this
box does not have the "date" command, so I did not
know where it got
word on date, time, year, etc. Anyway, I was used to
fighing date
changes when I booted up Tru64 and NT on other machines.
Last week I decided to see if the battery was low. I went
to pry it out
- the sping that holds it in is quite strong - and noticed
that one of
the battery socket connections was loose. By the time I got
the battery
out (it tested OK, 3.3V) the other connection popped off as
well! It
looked like a cold joint to me. The socket is not pinned
through the
motherboard, it is just soldered to a couple copper flats.
Fortunately there wasn't anything that looked heat-sensitive
near the
connectors. I freshened up the solder on the socket
contacts, then
soldered them down to the board.
Since then the computer hasn't lost a second. Also I can
now unplug the
thing completely without having to warm up the chips for 10
minutes
before it will boot again after a weekend.
jn
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