We had a bit of a problem with one of our 918RXs this week, and was
hoping someone could shed some light on this issue. We had a 918RX
stored for about 3 months, or at least long enough for the clock to be
one hour fast (Daylight Savings Time, I woudl figure). When we booted
the machine and tried to change the time, the system locked up with a
message:

Sytsem Abort 1328 From Subsystem 110
Secondary Status: INFO=-1110; SUSBYS = 110
FTL DEAD/BE07/0105/0230

But the system would boot properly as long as we didn't change the
time. Don't change time would boot up, change time would crash. HP
came out (believing it was a hardware issue), and it turns out that
resetting the RTC fixed the problem. The RTC was set to 1/1/70 GMT,
and when we set it to 3/11/98 GMT, then changed the time at bootup to
EST, everything worked.

The best we could come up with was that there is a limit in the
differential between the RTC and the current time, and this let us run
ok without changing the time but crashed the system when we tried to
change it. Moving the RTC forward to current time seemed to have
minimized this differential.

Does the time differential  make sense to anyone? Thanks!

Steve B.