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Packard Bell Executive - clock stopped when powered off

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First post, by Vulpine

Posted on 2021-06-14, 14:06

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I've recently bought a Packard Bell Executive (MM 9005 D ), which is a dead ringer for my first Intel PC, which makes me very happy indeed.

When it arrived the clock battery was dead, and it complained about that in the BIOS on powering up, so I swapped the battery.

Now it no longer complains about the clock, and in Windows time advances as normal, but when powered off, the time doesn't advance at all. It retains the time that was last set, so the battery appears to be working.

Could the RTC have failed, or is there a jumper/BIOS setting somewhere to unfreeze it?

Reply 1 of 2, by chinny22

Posted on 2021-06-15, 09:25

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Wouldn't be due to jumper or bios setting.
I'd try another battery first as that's the cheapest/ easiest option.
Otherwise annoyingly it'll be due to a fault on the motherboard, either a component running out of spec or stopping battery power reaching the RTC .

If the machine is networked you can use something like mTCP to update the time.
https://www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP_Sntp.html
Lots of devices can act as a sntp server if you don't want your machine accessing the internet.

or do what I do and just update manually, admittedly mine isn't so bad, just looses a good couple of hours each day.

Reply 2 of 2, by Vulpine

Posted on 2021-06-21, 11:33

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Thanks for the reply -- I'll try another battery and see if that does the trick.
If it's not that, I don't have a NIC in this PC, but I can live with manually correcting the clock.

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