Corrupted Clock....Help please!
Have bought a Medion MT93 (PC MT5) from PC world (UK) with an Athlon 1.6/ViaKT266(VT8366)chipset/MSI 6382 motherboard/256mbDDRAM/Running WinXP home.
At no time since owning this machine has the clock ever kept the same time after being shut down overnight. It will either go a few minutes out, or revert to 0000 Jan 1st 2000. Anything up to six hours out on other occasions.
PC world have replaced the BIOS battery. I have reverted to factory settings from the recovery disk, updated the 4 in 1 driver from the VIA web site, also unchecked the 'synchronise with the web' option in date/time, all to no avail.
PC world are now talking about replacing the motherboard. Does anyone have any idea's before I give up and accept the fact that I am going to have to set the clock every time I fire up?
Probably unrelated, but the machine also refuses to stay in standby/hibernate. Booting itself up after ten minutes. I suspect the culprit is Zone Alarm. The problem resolves when this is uninstalled.(I also found a conflict preventing the machine standing by when 'Web ferret' was installed).
PC world have been as helpful as they can but frankly admit that as the machine is a 'one off' compilation made to compete pricewise with a supermarket offer they don't have much information to support it with. The lad's on the phone line also seem to be a bit slow on WinXP, but then aren't we all.
Medion won't speak to me as the machine is supported by PC world.
I would appreciate any help out there!
Thanks in anticipation.