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To: SPSEIFERT who wrote (599)	11/7/1998 11:30:00 AM
From: PMS Witch	Respond to of 110645

Design flaw revealed by Crouch and Echlin This was the headline in COMPUTERWORLD Nov 6th issue. It seems that these guys discovered a design flaw which causes PC clocks to have behave randomly. They claim that if the system reads the time at the same instant the hardware is updating the registers, the system gets random garbage in SOME fields. Further information: nethawk.com intranet.ca elmbronze.demon.co.uk Hope this helps, PW.

To: SPSEIFERT who wrote (599)	11/7/1998 4:09:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 110645

>>battery needs replacing. It's normally just a watch/calulator battery. Cr2025, 2032, or some such -- 3 bucks or so at a drug store or Radio Shack. The required battery should be in the motherboard manual, or find it on the motherboard and look at it. Generally it just clips on. Better to have a replacement ready at hand, but if you have to take it out to find out what it is, put it back while you go buy the replacement. You don't want to leave it out for a long time.