Sometimes the internal batteries go bad.

I suspect when they did a shut down, they also powered down, even if it
was only for a second.

If the intent was to only do a Restart, it may be avoided if they go
directly to maintenance mode with Control-B and RS.  And DON'T turn the
key to Standby (presuming it a model that uses a key.)

Tracy Johnson
Measurement Specialties Inc.
BT






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> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Greg Terterian
> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 10:55 AM
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> Subject: [HP3000-L] CPU Clock problem!!!
> 
> One of my customers called stating that whenever they 
> shutdown the system,  
> during the startup (right after issuing START NORECOVERY) the 
> clock displays  
> 1/1/1970 and asks if the time is correct... they would go 
> ahead and reply 'N'  
> and change the clock.
>  
> After the system was up and they would do 'SYSDATE' it would 
> show Internal  
> clock correct, but the external clock would still say 
> 1/1/1970... the only way  
> we could correct this was via SETCLOCK;TIMEZONE=W7:00
>  
> 
> (Setclock with date and time;now would not correct the problem)
>  
> Thinking that the battery is gone, I replaced their CPU 
> battery, but they  
> are still having the same problem.
> Is there something else that needs to be changed other then 
> the battery or  
> does it have to do with the CPU board?
>  
> Thanks for all the help
> Greg
> 
> 
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