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Oops. My PC's clock has been slowing down for a while now. I didn't have time to figure out if it was some wonky sw I'd loaded (for free!) or whether it was actually the battery, so I did a sw workaround and installed an app to synchronize my machine every 1/2 hour or so (another freebie).

That was a few months ago. The machine and I have been happy until this week when the synchronizing app and I crossed words and it decided to run only once at startup. As my clock slowed more and more, I remembered that I'd forgotten to fix the real problem. And then I realized (after my mail to you, Mike, sorry about that!) that this was more than just annoying, what with misstamping email messages and the like: I was looking at impending PC doom.

Unlike the other dooms that have settled on my head lately, this doom I foresaw in time to do something about. Because I am allergic to hw, I will be certain to write down every little piece of the BIOS configuration before replacing the battery.

Trust noone. Especially hardware.

[ Last thought: Why can't the O/S gain access to the BIOS settings so I can print the damn thing instead of writing them down by hand? Wait a minute.... maybe there's something (free!) out there that can do that for a Dell Dimension with Windows 98? What are the chances? I'll look but very briefly, because I doubt its existence - hardware people just love doing this kind of thing to sw folks. They're like that. ]

Okay, I didn't find anything except the BIOS print screen. Slow but good enough. I guess.

Another thought: Why can't I change the battery without losing all of the BIOS anyway? Just a little capacitor, with say enough juice for, oh, an hour or so. Just for the changing of the battery. Seriously. Any hw guys listening?

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