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Re: Computer Glitches?OT

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My experience has been that if your computer's date resets back to 1980, the
BIOS in your PC is not compliant. Yes, you can change your date every time
you boot but turning off your PC will reset the date back to an earlier year
because the BIOS won't recognize the date beyond 1999. Changing the date in
the operating system might be okay at every boot up but if you have an
application that reads the date direct from the BIOS, you'll still be out of
luck. If you don't have any date sensitive applications, don't sweat it but
if you don't want to upgrade the hardware (or entire PC), you'll have to
learn to live with changing the date.

Jeff

----- Original Message -----
From: <Al782@aol.com>
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Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 21:39
Subject: Re: Computer Glitches?OT


> Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
>
> Me too!
> I wonder why that date?  We tried setting our clock on the PC for 1-1-1975
> and  1979 we couldn't remember which one was supposed to be identical to
> 2000, but it rejected both of them.  Any experts out there who can tell me
> how to get fix it software for an antique(486)?  I sent for a fixer from
AOL
> only to send it back because it was only good for pentium on up.
> Bonnie C.
>
>
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