[Discussion] JunkSpy, TimeKeeper/2 TCP/IP printing problems

[Jon Harrison]

On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:03:45 -0500, otavsky at prodigy.net wrote:

>
>Ten minutes in eight hours? That is a lot. Is it possible that the BIOS 
>chip (which has the "Real Time Clock") battery is low, or almost dead? I 
>do not know how to acces it on your laptop, but somebody else might help 
>with that.

Another thing that will do this is 'dirty' power.  Especially with
some of these cheap computers that use lousy switching components
to make DC.  I have a computer that runs on a diesel generator and
have to update the time every 6 hours to stay within a few minutes.

It runs perfectly on household current.

Jon