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    Date reseting? sounds like mb battery to me; easy switch? standard batteries?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by skeezix, Jul 27, 2010.

  1. skeezix

    skeezix Notebook Consultant

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    hey guys,

    I'm on a long babysitting hiatus right now; sitters go away, so I'm on nil free time day or night :)

    I've got a NP5793 with mods (x9000 ftw :), about 2-3 years old; of late (Windows 7), on boot its in the year 2058 or thereabouts. It 'feels' like a fubar'd battery, since it tends to happen after the laptop has been unplugged for the night but not if I reboot a few times in a row with plug out. I'll be without time for the night, but will have a minute tomorrow morning so I'll fire it up to Linux first, and see what it thinksw of the date .. but it might be pulling a fresh date down and foiling my observation.

    Anyway, while in the year 2058, pulling a fresh date from the net (in Windows) fails, and windows-update fails; I figured this immediatley suggest virus, but once the date is set back to sensible, the net resync of the clock, and windows update work again. If a virus was mucking with them, changing the date wouldn't enable them. (And windows-update service is still active in services.msc); I've run MalwareBytes and Avast and they suggest clean, but without doing a full reinstall or boot-clean-check-external-drive type test, its hard to say. (Leave it to microsoft so that if the date is totally fubar, a date resync fails. Thats just amazing.)

    For now, without time to do a full reinstall, I'm thinking of seeing how it goes; it doesn't seem to be virusy, but you never know. Down the road I'll just do a reinstall and keep it a small paertition just for gaming, and then any serious Windows gunk will be in a vm; I mostly live in unix and linux these days, but need Windows around for af ew things .. like Starcraft 2, when my babysitting starts letting me have free time again. (When did going back to work after vacation, mean vacation? ;)

    Assuming its just a motherboard battery gone bad after 3 years (Seriously? usually last 5-7 or more for me!), I'm assuming its an easy swap on a Clevo?

    Any tips?

    How long should a laptop battery last? Sounds like they die out pretty quickly (2-4 years) .. 5+ seems better for a battery in such a situation :/

    ie: Is there a standards "laptop battery" I can buy at any old useful computer store, or is Clevo something odd I need to order?

    If I leave the laptop plugged in (when off), should it be good to go? (I always unplug, I've had a few machines killed by lightning over the years)?
    jeff

    Sorry for the spew, writing quick, baby calls :)
     
    skeezix, Jul 27, 2010
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