No, the battery is not dead - I've keeped the computer unplugged for hours a number of times, and time was still passing, moving from April 10th to April 11th and so on.<br> What happened was I never gave a chance to the hardware clock to get back to 2006, after I resetted it to 1976 by zapping the PRAM and NVRAM.<br> But then after people from this mailing list kindly told me how to set hardware clock to system time, the clock was back to 2006 at last.<br> <br> So this problem is solved for good :-)<br> <br> Cheers,<br> <br> Y-Lan<br><br> <br> <br><b><i>Bartosz Zaród &lt;Bartosz@...&gt;</i></b> a écrit&nbsp;:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <br>On 2006-02-14, at 20:19, Y-Lan Boureau wrote:<br><br>&gt; Thanks everyone :-))<br>&gt;<br>&gt; My system date is back to 2006 !<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Cheers,<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Y-Lan<br><br>Having a dead battery, system clock resets to it's initial value only 
 <br>when I:<br>1. Turn off the power<br>2. Plug off power cord for a while, i.e. when I take the computer to  <br>a different location. 5 minutes is enough.<br><br>Simple restart is not enough. System clock is running like the  <br>circuit that lets to turn on machine "softly" - with power button on  <br>the keyboard.<br><br>If you use oldworld machine and need to boot the old Mac OS system  <br>before running BootX, you can expect the machine to "forget" where is  <br>the startup volume too.<br><br>With these information you should quickly find if battery needs to be  <br>replaced.<br><br>Regards<br>Bartek<br>-- <br>gentoo-ppc-user@g.o mailing list<br><br></blockquote><br><p>
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