How do I fix my computer's date?

June 2, 2007 8:05 AM

Windows 2000 changes my computer's date. When I shut it down, the year is 2007. At startup the year is 2005. So, I change it back to 2007. Next startup, it is 2005 again. Can anybody help me fix this?
posted by partner to computers & internet (7 comments total)

It may be the little battery on your motherboard, the CMOS one. Replace that, and it should be fine. Sometimes when that battery starts going, the computer begins to get a little senile and forget things.
posted by Verdandi at 8:10 AM on June 2, 2007

Verdandi is correct. My Laptop does the same. Except that it remembers the date and time of the last time it was running.
posted by wile e at 8:30 AM on June 2, 2007

Thanks for the info! Now, if I can just find that battery...
posted by partner at 9:43 AM on June 2, 2007

Picture.
posted by philomathoholic at 9:49 AM on June 2, 2007

A work around is to set your window2000 machine to get its time from an atomic clock using the windows time service. Instructions here.
posted by damn dirty ape at 8:37 PM on June 2, 2007

Tech told me any button cell that's the right voltage and fits in the hole would be fine. (This was on a 385, thogh, so not sure how fussy a new one would be.) But yeah, that's the battery getting old.
posted by unrepentanthippie at 10:12 AM on June 3, 2007

though
(wanders off to look for coffee)
posted by unrepentanthippie at 10:13 AM on June 3, 2007