Thank you for your help! My CPU isn't relevant to this - I have determined that it predates these features. The CMOS battery is definitely an easy fix, and I even have CR2032s kicking around - it's just never been important enough to fix. I was looking for any warning or things I should watch out for getting a new system. Thanks. On Wed, 25 Mar 2020 at 14:19, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 01:02:36PM -0400, William Witteman via talk wrote:
Yeah, that's the crux of it - my CPU is definitely 10+ years old.
The magic of Linux has meant that my quad core machine with 2 Gb of RAM has been serving me well for a decade.
The only problem the machine has given me is that the CMOS battery died, so I have to reset the time whenever there's a power outage.
On many motherboards the battery is a plain old CR2032 in a pop in holder. Worth checking if it would be trivial to swap out.
So what CPU model is it?
-- Len Sorensen