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[The Niles]

Your BIOS is not plural. The BIOS (Basic Input Output System) of your computer is the last part of the ROM left on modern computers and is the reason it can run at all. It handles all communication of the different parts of the computer and also has the internal clock. To get into BIOS tap del at startup when prompted. It might be that your battery on your motherboard is deing/dead. If this is the case you can simply swap it out for a good one.

Originally posted by The Picard@Jul 10 2005, 04:44 PM
Your BIOS is not plural. The BIOS (Basic Input Output System) of your computer is the last part of the ROM left on modern computers and is the reason it can run at all. It handles all communication of the different parts of the computer and also has the internal clock. To get into BIOS tap del at startup when prompted. It might be that your battery on your motherboard is deing/dead. If this is the case you can simply swap it out for a good one.

Got any suggestions that are a little less extreme? This computer is probably about four years old.

[McKack]

It doesn't get any less extreme than that, it's quite harmless and easy to do. Bigger chance of messing up the system in windows with lots of useless software and fiddling.

[Titan]

Originally posted by Triton+Jul 11 2005, 12:02 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Triton @ Jul 11 2005, 12:02 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-The Picard@Jul 10 2005, 04:44 PM
Your BIOS is not plural. The BIOS (Basic Input Output System) of your computer is the last part of the ROM left on modern computers and is the reason it can run at all. It handles all communication of the different parts of the computer and also has the internal clock. To get into BIOS tap del at startup when prompted. It might be that your battery on your motherboard is deing/dead. If this is the case you can simply swap it out for a good one.

Got any suggestions that are a little less extreme? This computer is probably about four years old. [/b][/quote]
If it's 4 years old, it a GOOD chanse it's the BIOS battery that has gone flat, and it has reset the time to default, and sorta missed it with a few thousand years *L*

No.. but BIOS battery is the best bet here.

It SHOULD physicly be located rellativly near the CPU-part of the board.
Not hard to spot.

Go to a computer-shop and get a new, or remove the battery and go to a store (any store) and ask for a simmulare (just volts and size match, the band doesn't matter)

[The Niles]

Exactly, swapping out the battery on your mainboard is as easy as swapping them out on your MP3-player, alarm-clock, flashlight or any other device that uses a battery.

[BeefontheBone]

Except you have to take the case off, so nearly as easy :P
It'd be worth adjusting it in the BIOS settings and seeing if it goes wrong again though - it may be the battery is fine and the setting just got messed up somehow.

[The Fifth Horseman]

The last possibility might be a fault BIOS or clock. Which means serious trouble.

[The Niles]

Doubtfull as that would mean a lot more things would be going wrong and most likely the computer would not even boot.

[Apocalypse Dude]

They mostly look something like this :

[Rogue]

Originally posted by The Picard@Jul 10 2005, 03:44 PM
Your BIOS is not plural. The BIOS (Basic Input Output System) of your computer is the last part of the ROM left on modern computers and is the reason it can run at all. It handles all communication of the different parts of the computer and also has the internal clock. To get into BIOS tap del at startup when prompted. It might be that your battery on your motherboard is deing/dead. If this is the case you can simply swap it out for a good one.

Second this, but got confused witht the date. Mostly if battery runs out, date goes to 1/1/1901 or something like that, in the past.

I would run SpyBot, and enable advanced settings and TeaTimer, then check all running processes using it. Delete most of them (one that you don't have to have running), as that will get you more running memory and make your computer faster.

It's registry protection. It disables any registry changes without your knowledge. very usefull tool.