[Nottingham] A few problems with my computer

Jim Moore jmthelostpacket at googlemail.com
Fri May 2 13:26:27 BST 2008


Simple answer: your CMOS battery is dead. £1.99 Maplin for a CR2032 coin 
cell, fixed.


Ron Wilton wrote:
> I'm having a few problems with my computer, and I'm hoping someone 
> will be able to help me.
>
> 1) The date is not being remembered when I start the computer.
>
> 2) I get the following message when the computer first boots up:-
> CMOS checksum error - Defaults loaded
>
> 3) When the partitions are being mounted I get the following message:-
> Superblock last mount time is in the future. FIXED
>
> I'm using Ubuntu.
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> Ron
>
>
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