# Do you know why?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/do-you-know-why/16452>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [March 25, 2003, 8:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/do-you-know-why/16452 "2003-03-25T08:19:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Daveman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@Daveman](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Daveman)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 8:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/do-you-know-why/16452/1 "2003-03-25T08:19:06Z")

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Ok, I gave my nephew an old P1 200mmx that i had about 6months ago. Everytime he sends an e-mail the date is 01-01-1996. Everytime he restarts, it resets itself to 01-01-1996. The only thing i can think of is the battery on the motherboard is flat…

Now the good part, Shareware never runs out.  
You installed it on 01-01-1996 and its always 01-01-1996 when you go to use it…

Daveman

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 8:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/do-you-know-why/16452/2 "2003-03-25T08:24:32Z")

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The only thing I can think of is the battery on the motherboard as well. That happened to me once, but I kept getting all these random funky dates and times though. I replaced the battery and it was fine.

But if the battery were dead, your computer couldn’t start, that is eventually what happened to mine. I got a battery dead error.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 8:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/do-you-know-why/16452/3 "2003-03-25T08:28:51Z")

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bummer

it’s been like that for about 4 months :: Dave

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**Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 8:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/do-you-know-why/16452/4 "2003-03-25T08:35:30Z")

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keep a good supply of half dead batteries on hand - shareware is waluabble… hey 30 day free trials - forever…yeHa :!:

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**Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 9:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/do-you-know-why/16452/5 "2003-03-25T09:58:28Z")

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Bios reset

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**Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 1:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/do-you-know-why/16452/6 "2003-03-25T13:52:39Z")

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I havent seen it keep going to the same time every boot up before!?

I have seen random times or always going back or ahead a certain amount of hours but both of those are a bad battery and not setting your clock properly… c!rYx might be on to something 🙂