What time is it?

[ravenshrinkery.livejournal.com]

Time for a bit of a reminder of what's on a standard x86 PC (and most others, for that matter).

Customer explains to me that her system clock is not holding time.  Known issue with the particular motherboard.  Previous tech notes: referred to feebased support, reason: clock not supported (OS issue).

I'm pretty sure there's been a RTC on every x86 system since the 8086.  I'm not sure.  I'm thinking this person might just be stuck back in time, or it might be time to consider a new line of work.  And yes, the clock is supported even by our rather cheap manufacturer.

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[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

Apparently, MaxFactor makes hard drives now =/

edit: was dealing with customer who couldn't read and a maxtor HDD.