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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

2540.0. "Tick Tock - goodby clock" by HPSCAD::GATULIS (Frank Gatulis) Mon May 08 1989 21:24

   

    AWE S%@# !  (Just when I was starting to like this system) 
        
    What's the bad news when I get this message every time I try to
    set the date & time  (or read the clock at boot) -
    
                "Battery backed up clock not found"
    
    Is it a chip, battery, or what!

    Frank
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2540.1Check your connections.SHARE::DOYLETue May 09 1989 08:167
    The same thing happened to me and it turned out my power cord was
    loose.
     It was kinda weird cause everything else worked fine.
     Of course I'm assuming that you have the One meg Expansion unit.
     But as soon as I pushed the cord in securely into the back of my
    A500, it worked fine.
    
2540.2HPSCAD::GATULISFrank GatulisTue May 09 1989 08:476
    Good try but no luck ....  Forgot to mention it's an A2000
    
    I'll give Roy a call today over at the Memory Location.
    
    Frank
    
2540.3A2000 clock problem fixedHPSCAD::GATULISFrank GatulisTue May 09 1989 20:1716
    Whew clock problem solved.  Apparently, my clock somehow got "locked
     up" somehow.  I can acount for this as it seemed to happen in
     coincidence with a visit from the GURU.  That's when I noticed
     the problem for the first time.
    
     Thanks to some helpful dialogue from a related problem on an A500
     I tried some things.  It turns out that I couldn't clear it at
     all from 1.3 but a simple re-incarnation of a 1.2 floppy and it
     responded correctly to the 1.2 version of SETCLOCK OPT SAVE

     How do people in Amiga world survive who don't have access to 
     the knowledge we DECis can access via notes files?  The frustration
     level must be incredible (along with their phone bills).
    
    Frank
    
2540.4LEDS::ACCIARDIWed May 10 1989 01:0112
    
    As terrific a place this notesfile is, I suggest that those with an
    extra $30-$40 per month to spare sign on with PLINK.  While we have
    been blessed with the likes of Randy Meyers, Wes Plouff and others, the
    level of competence and experience in the AmigaZone on PLINK is
    staggering.  Wanna speak directly to Dave Haynie or Andy Finkel?  No
    problem.  Wheras there are perhaps a hundred or two DEC Amiga noters,
    PLINK boasts around 6,000 members of the AmigaZone.
    
    Ed.
    
    
2540.5Common know problem.MQOFS::LEDOUXReserved for Future UseWed May 10 1989 11:055
    reply :.0
    
    Note 2346.* describes the exact same problem and the fix You have
    already found.  Thanks to the notesfile.