It very well could be that the clock and harddrive recognition are based
soley on battery power all the time and do not use power cord power at all,
which would account for the clock slowing down if the batter is going dead
even if the computer is plugged into an active power source.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of B.Rumary
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 11:39 AM
To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
Subject: Re: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Matrox and Monitor standby
In <3B6B1F4A00000FA0@mail.san.yahoo.com>, Rob Geraghty wrote:
> Problems like the clock losing the time and the computer "forgetting"
> what hard drives are connected usually indicates a faulty battery on
> the motherboard. There is a small battery which allows the static
> RAM in the real time clock to remember the time and IDE settings etc.
>
Yes I had thought of that. This would explain the MB forgetting the
time and HDD setting while the mains power was off. But I can't see how
it would explain the clock running slow and the computer not being able
to "see" the slave HDD when the power was on!
I am beginning to think that I have just got a bad board, and I will
have to see about getting a replacement for it.
> Again, the best resource for these issues is the gigabyte newsgroup.
>
Yes I think you are right. I will have to follow this up there and stop
boring this list with my computer problems!
Brian Rumary, England
