Clock resetting to an early date is usually a sign of a bad
motherboard battery on a Mac. Don't know if there is any
correspondence to a PC at all.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Apr 7, 2006, at 5:52 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> I agree with Garth. There's some malware residing on that machine.
> WinXP is not resetting the hardware clock as the result of a bug.
> Hard
> to say what other damage has already occured and has yet to occur. It
> needs some serious attention.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> Garth Wood wrote:
>
>> At 04:44 PM 07/04/2006, Brian Swale wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>
>>> Anyway ... I was amused to find that XP locks up his fairly new
>>> machine a
>>> lot more than 95 does on mine, (I mean LOCKS it up) AND when it
>>> does, it
>>> resets the clock to 1 January 2000. That is some kind of advance
>>> on W'95.
>>> At least the clock is left alone when W'95 locks up ( Ha ! ).
>>
>>
>>
>> Experiences vary.
>>
>> *My* XP machines are generally quite reliable; the Dell workstation
>> can putter away for weeks without incident, while my laptops tend to
>> have the occasional boot lock-up ('bout once or twice a month). It's
>> no big -- kill the power and re-boot.
>>
>> Your cousin may have other issues -- viruses or malware, badly
>> fragmented hive files, etc. Various utilities exist to analyze and
>> (if necessary) rectify these problems. WinXP's got its problems, but
>> I sure don't miss Win95!
>>
>>
>> Garth
>>
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