My Time & Date are constantly resetting to "2001"???? Help Pls..

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Hi everyone,

Please help me I am having problems with the time on the lower right side of
my screen and the date keep resetting back to Dec 2001 (must have been a good
year); I clicked on the date and keep changing it and applying it and also
saying OK; then I will close everything down and it will start up with the
old info again. I don't know why it is not correcting it's self. I also set
it to change to the internet automaticly. Can someone pls tell me how to
correct this???
It messed up all of the other applications that saying they are expired
because this date is throwing everything off.........

Thanks...... I appreciate it.......................

Nepatsfan
Mon May 05 06:24:52 PDT 2008

"rainbowcolors" <rainbowcolors@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
> --
> Hi everyone,
>
> Please help me I am having problems with the time on the lower right side of
> my screen and the date keep resetting back to Dec 2001 (must have been a good
> year); I clicked on the date and keep changing it and applying it and also
> saying OK; then I will close everything down and it will start up with the
> old info again. I don't know why it is not correcting it's self. I also set
> it to change to the internet automaticly. Can someone pls tell me how to
> correct this???
> It messed up all of the other applications that saying they are expired
> because this date is throwing everything off.........
>
> Thanks...... I appreciate it.......................


It sounds like the battery on your motherboard has died. Take a look at these
articles for how to replace it.

How To Replace The COMES Battery In Your PC
http://www.liverepair.com/encyclopedia/articles/cmosreplace.asp

How to install a COMES battery
http://www.smartcomputing.com/Editorial/article.asp?article=articles/2004/w1510/32w10/32w10.asp&guid=

Good luck

Nepatsfan

Ken
Mon May 05 12:09:47 PDT 2008

On Mon, 5 May 2008 05:45:01 -0700, rainbowcolors
<rainbowcolors@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>
> --
> Hi everyone,
>
> Please help me I am having problems with the time on the lower right side of
> my screen and the date keep resetting back to Dec 2001 (must have been a good
> year); I clicked on the date and keep changing it and applying it and also
> saying OK; then I will close everything down


Do you mean that you shut down the computer...


> and it will start up



...and then reboot it?


> with the
> old info again. I don't know why it is not correcting it's self. I also set
> it to change to the internet automaticly. Can someone pls tell me how to
> correct this???


If that's the case, you need to replace the battery on the
motherboard. It's a flat disk, about the size and shape of a US
quarter, held in place by a clip. They are inexpensive--$4-5 US or so.

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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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Badger
Sat May 10 20:02:17 PDT 2008


"rainbowcolors" <rainbowcolors@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7C76BCF3-FCC0-49EE-BC88-80D77D8CEEBE@microsoft.com...
>
> --
> Hi everyone,
>
> Please help me I am having problems with the time on the lower right side
> of
> my screen and the date keep resetting back to Dec 2001 (must have been a
> good
> year); I clicked on the date and keep changing it and applying it and also
> saying OK; then I will close everything down and it will start up with the
> old info again. I don't know why it is not correcting it's self. I also
> set
> it to change to the internet automaticly. Can someone pls tell me how to
> correct this???
> It messed up all of the other applications that saying they are expired
> because this date is throwing everything off.........
>
> Thanks...... I appreciate it.......................

The likely cause of this behaviour is a failing motherboard battery. Open up
your computer and look for a small, flat battery somewhere. They are usually
easy to remove, then all you have to do is replace it with one of the same
type.
Badger