I were warned but ... now really need your advice

[Vu Pham]

On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 10:35 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> On Tue, 29 May 2007, Vu Pham wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 09:58 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> >> On Tue, 29 May 2007, Vu Pham wrote:
> >>> On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 20:45 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> >>>> Maybe the CMOS battery died?  How old is this mobo?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> One is 9-month old, the other is 3-day old :)
> >>>
> >>> I also did the following tests:
> >>> - set the motherboard time correctly and turn it off.
> >>> - several hours later turn it on and check the time. It is correct.
> >>> - without turning off the power, just let it boot to the hard drive, now
> >>> it shows the incorrect time, both the OS and the motherboard.
> >>>
> >>> I think some process(es) on the motherboard change the system time.
> >>
> >> Perhaps it has the wrong timezone set?
> >
> > I checked that already. It shows CDT in both the "date" command line as
> > well as in the Yast interface.
> >
> > The strange thing is it changes the minutes also. Like from 7:30PM to
> > 4:16AM.
> 
> And this box was working fine up until recently?

The 9-month old board has worked fine recently. I just found the time
problem about two days ago and I thought its battery is dead. Then I got
the new board and just want to compare the performance of the two boards
and found even the new one has the time problem.

Vu