Dell Inspiron 1545 Clock Stops when laptops shutdown?

pcmot · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2012 4:35 am

Got a Dell Inspiron here.
When I shut down the machine I can set the date and time to be correct. Leave it off for an hour. The time is still where I left it when I shut it down. Ie 1 hour behind.
Have changed the bios battery and reset bios to default as well?

Any ideas.

Dean
Pc Mot

rgarces1974 · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2012 9:28 am

What operating system? And is it exactly 1 hr behind? What happens if you shut it down and turn it on 15 minutes later? Is it behind 1hr or 15 minutes only?

Rafael Garces
Technician

rgarces1974 · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2012 9:30 am

I was thinking maybe you just need to set the clock to automatically adjust for daylight savings time, that's if it's always 1hr behind no matter how long you leave it off for.

Rafael Garces
Technician

pcmot · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2012 1:32 pm

Hi

No its exactly whatever amount of time you close it for, so tomorrow it will be a day out of date.
im thinking its the motherboard now.

jmutton · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2012 9:39 pm

Have you tried a BIOS update?

pcmot · **Posted:** Tue Jul 10, 2012 3:09 am

no i haven't, i suppose its worth a try,

thx will do that and let you know.

michaelm · **Posted:** Tue Jul 10, 2012 8:38 pm

Had an HP doing that a few months ago. Turned out to be the cmos battery. Once I replaced that the problem went away.

pcmot · **Posted:** Wed Jul 11, 2012 2:47 am

Already done that?

cpumelter · **Joined:** Sat Jun 18, 2011 9:33 pm **Posts:** 689

Test the voltage of the new CMOS batt.? I can't think of anything else, other than a virus possibly that would be messing with the time/date settings.

Does the pc boot properly to the desktop with no errors or messages?

jmutton · **Posted:** Wed Jul 11, 2012 10:45 pm

What you need to do is note the date and time when you turn the laptop off.
When you turn it back on again don't let it boot into windows and go into the BIOS and see what the date/time saids in there.

This should tell you if its something BIOS level or Windows levels causing the problem!

Dell Inspiron 1545 Clock Stops when laptops shutdown?

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