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On 15/08/10 11:06, Rob Beard wrote:
I have just checked the BIOS again, but before I read this email so I did not check the date.On 15/08/10 08:45, Neil Winchurst wrote:On 14/08/10 19:30, tom wrote:If your cmos is dying your should find dates set to 1/1/2000 or similar Normally on resetting dates etc in the bios and re-booting the settings will be kept as the power supply should keep the data alive - you can tell when its lost as it normally tells you. Check the CD boots in another machine - its probably that rather than the bios Tom te tom te tomThanks Tom. I have just checked the date ('date' in a terminal screen) and it is correct. I will try the CD in another machine as suggested.Check the date in the BIOS itself, you'll probably find when the OS boots it will sync it's time with a time server on the internet. Rob
The boot sequence still shows the CD/DVD drive as the first one. Yet when I put a bootable CD into the drive before powering up it is still ignored. It goes straight to the hard drive. Strange.
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