On Wednesday 25 June 2014 08:13:12 Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > seems indicate a hardware problem (battery?) I nearly said so, but grandmothers and eggs came to mind. CMOS batteries are cheap enough. Why not just change it and see? It does not sound unreasonable that a battery should be running down after 5 years or more. And you don't want to wait until odd things start happening to your system. Lisi