system clock problem

Having googled the issue with no good result, I'm relying on the collective sagacity of Notebook Review.

It's a dumb little problem; my system clock awakes from sleep, hibernate, and power off showing the time setting extant when it nodded off. I've reset repeatedly in BIOS and via internet clock; problem remains.

The precipitant seems to have been a power interruption I perpetrated on myself when I swapped out a battery, believing the AC to be plugged in; it was, but not to the wall. Once I rebooted, Norton GoBack alerted me to timestamp discrepancies, which I corrected (again, countless times on countless reboots). Believing the problem to be GoBack (fighting old wars with Symantec) I stupidly failed to use this software to do a system restore, and just rashly disabled it in a rage. Which helped not at all, of course.

What to do?

AVG spyware and Norton AV revealed no problems. Tried to run these in Safe Mode, but was confounded; using F8 on my old PCs, I had no trouble using Safe Mode; however, I had trouble figuring out how to do this with Thinkvantage. I'm not very sophisticated about this stuff.

I don't think it's the CMOS battery...?

Help!

Thanks,

andrea b.

 

Perhaps, not. You are well-spoken, however.