Clock forgets the time

[tuartboy]

I have had my 2.66 MP for about 2 months now and it has started to forget the time upon reboot. It seems to just randomly pick some time about 4-8 hours in the past and I have to open the date and time settings to reset it. As soon as I open the preference pane it picks up the time server and fixes itself, but it is still very annoying.

I once heard that the clock can start to go wrong if the battery inside the mac starts to die. I don't know if this holds true with the new MPs. Does anyone have any ideas?

 

[edesignuk]

First thing I was going to suggest was a "CMOS Battery" or whatever they call them in MP's. Open it up and see if you can see any little disc shaped flat batteries in there.

 

[Jasonbot]

Normally this happens to me when using bootcamp. Selecting the setting to automatically set your date and time and you should be fine.

 

[Lycanthrope]

Yep, I get this after booting into Windows, it's a known problem

 

[tuartboy]

Yep, I get this after booting into Windows, it's a known problem

Hmm... Seems like a problem that they could easily fix.

I had Vista Ultimate running on here since I bought the machine and just downgraded to XP a couple weeks back. It never did this with Vista so it must be an XP thing.

(BTW, Vista is a joke. I was afraid to do anything for fear it would be DRM'ed. 😛 Not like I do anything real in Windows anyway...)

Thanks for the input.

 

[FF_productions]

Phew, I was going to post about this.

I boot into Windows once in a while so that may have messed it up a little bit.