486 thinks it's 1980... lol

[Eli]

ha ha If this is pretty much the worst of this bug then we got off easy... I fired up my old 486 for the first time this year, installed a network card, hooked it up to my PII300, set the network properties correctly, etc... After I successfully got it to connect to the net through Sygate, I tried to check my mother's Hotmail. What's this, certicicate is not in effect? Oh wait, that's because it won't be made until 19 years from now. Yep, it's appartently January 14, 1980. I had a good long laugh... http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

[socalgal]

lol, it's a Time Machine! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif

The 80's - ack!

[scotter]

my mother-in-laws boss has oops had a 486 that defalted to 2097 lol http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif
do you think I'll still be here to see time catch up with it ?

[Jkayo]

That 1980 thing happened to my friend also. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[Smokey]

Apparantly, it's happened to lots of people with older 486s...

[mattheadfat]

me too! but after that i changed the date to 2000 and nothing after that, weird huh? nothing happened on my celery? why 1980 and not 1900?

[KillerBug]

I fired up mine, it is 1984, the year the bios on it was writen.

[Eli]

Resetting the clock fixed the bug without problems. It's strange that Windows "95" would still work in 1980... lol I was under the impression that it was a "newer" 486 though, as it has 72 pin ram slots instead of the more common (for 486s) 30 pin slots. On the plus side, back in 1980 that thing would've easily killed any top-of-the-line computer... http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

[alondra]

Im workong on an old 486, has the 30 pin sims. the date will go beyond 2000 OK.
has win 95

[RONALDvd#22]

Good for you!LOL http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif

[stylin19]

Here is a historical perspective and it might provide a reason for the date being 1980 or 1984.

pc clock (http://www.rightime.com/pub/rt2@ptti.txt)

Rightime sold 4 million copies of software that made old PC's y2k compliant. From what i have been able to understand. In most cases, resetting the clock after the rollover, fixed the problem. i wonder if those 4 million people really neededd that product ?

Just curious, to those of you whose PC showed 1980 or 1984. Did the date on any files change also?
When you reset to the correct date, did the file dates change back ( if they got reset wrong in the first place) ?
Thanx

[KillerBug]

Just be glad no one fired up a 286, we would all be stuck in a disco inferno!