1997 Again?

[l82nite]

Computer resets system date to 1997 daily. Changed the battery and cleared CMOS on mobo to no avail. Does anyone have any ideas what might be wrong?!

[Brydon]

Have you done a virus scan?.

[jeana]

No clue, but as a long shot-- do you have a dual boot with Linux? I had a similar problem for a while, where somehow a daemon in the Linux partition would reset the date in BIOS with every boot (my fault-- I had been mucking around with some files in /etc.) This would screw me up for Windows, too. I never really solved it-- went away when I upgraded to Red Hat 6.1.

[bdunn]

Did this just start or has it been going on for a few months.

One of the machiens here is non Y2k compliant and is now back to 1991 again. Maybe you got the same problem?

[l82nite]

Virus scan cheched O.K., Y2K compliant. It is one of 30 machines we use; all are exactly the same (except for this problem!)

[shadow]

You may want to check for an updated bios, I had one computer that with the change of date from 1999 to 2000 would display the date 2096 in Windows. I could change it to 2000 in the bios and in Windows but as soon as I rebooted it was back to 2096. Turns out it wasn't y2k compliant and a bios update cleared it right up. The date (the 96 part) corresponded to the date of the bios version, not sure if that's of any significance or not.
PW

[richamies]

It is one of 30 machines we use

Are the machines all networked together? If so, check the date on the server. . . .

Just a thought. . .

[no_bs]

Long shot, check the battery contacts.

[BC]

Check the ceiling is it white? http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif
Just another SA remark.
Mine does it too but I get a cmos error. It has something to do with it eing unplugged for a while checked battery connection so I just got a prog that will go to the net and update itself auto. I don't worry bout it.

[howste]

I think BC has the right idea. Use NET TIME. Here's the syntax:

NET TIME [\\computer | /WORKGROUP:wgname] [/SET] [/YES]

computer Specifies the name of the computer (time
server) whose time you want to check or
synchronize your computer's clock with.
/WORKGROUP Specifies that you want to use the clock on a
computer (time server) in another workgroup.
wgname Specifies the name of the workgroup containing
a computer whose clock you want to check or
synchronize your computer's clock with. If
there are multiple time servers in that
workgroup, NET TIME uses the first one it
finds.
/SET Synchronizes your computer's clock with the
clock on the computer or workgroup you
specify.
/YES Carries out the NET TIME command without
first prompting you to provide information or
confirm actions.


Steve