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"Annie Woughman" wrote in message
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"SC Tom" wrote in message
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I don't think that's correct about them recharging. And you may have had
a faulty battery in it to begin with- I also have my PC's on a power
strip (well, a UPS that I turn off when I shut down), and my battery is
well over 5 without a change.

SC Tom
Here is what I found on the Gateway site that had me thinking it was
"charging" which was a misunderstanding on my part. It was referring to
the life of the battery. According to this, my battery was right on the
money-- it will last approximately three years if it isn't plugged in and
seven if it is. For $3.49 I think I will continue with the way I've been
doing things:

"The CR 2032 battery is a 3-volt, lithium, coin-cell battery with a rating
of 220 milliampere-hour (mAh). It provides power to a motherboard's
real-time clock (RTC) and BIOS memory. The battery enables the RTC to be
accurate to ±13 minutes per year at 78 degrees Fahrenheit, or 25 degrees
Celsius, with 3 volts applied.
On a motherboard, when the computer is plugged in, the standby current
from the power supply extends the battery's life. Its estimated lifetime
is seven years when the computer is plugged in to a power outlet and three
years when the computer is not."

***** Leaving power to the PC extends the life of the battery because it
keeps alive the same circuit that the battery does, therefore not using
battery power. It does not charge the battery.

SC Tom




"Annie Woughman" wrote in message
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OK. $3.49 for a new battery later. I will let you know in the morning
if this solved the problem. One thing I did learn while I was reading
about my battery, these Lithium batteries are supposed to "recharge"
themselves if the computer is left plugged in when it is off. Well, at
night when I power everything down, I always turn the power strips off
as an additional protection against power surges if we happened to have
a lightening storm at night or when we are out of town. (Our area seems
to be vulnerable to brown-outs and power surges.) Sooo, that might be
why my battery didn't last so very long. This is one of our newer
computers and this is the first time I have ever had to replace a
battery. The average life is supposed to be about seven years. I've
had this computer less than three.

"Annie Woughman" wrote in message
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On my Vista, now Win7 desktop I have had an ongoing problem with it
failing to keep the correct time. This happens at night when the
machine is turned off. In the morning I have to manually sync the
machine with internet time. When it was still a Vista machine I found a
registry fix that would have it automatically sync every four hours.
Now since the change to Win7, I find that this registry change is never
"saved." It is most annoying because this machine has a television
tuner so I use it regularly to record shows through the Media Center.
That doesn't work so very well if I forget to sync the machine in the
morning and the show I want recorded starts at 9:00 p.m. and my machine
still thinks it is 11:00 a.m.

Also, why is it just my desktop that does this and not either of my two
laptops? They are turned off 75% of the time but they always start up
with the correct time.

Does anyone know of a way to fix this, or an app that would make it
automatically do a time sync upon startup?