The CMOS battery would be my first suspect. While you are inside the 
case, you should be ready to clean out the dust if you have not done it 
already.

Tom

Philip Jones wrote:
> This is three times in the last two or three months that I have had problems getting this IBM NetVista P4 (purchased off lease) PC to even boot up.  Then when it finally does, the system date has been reset to 1/1/2000.  And that gives me all kinds of security alerts when I try to acdess a web site. I've seen this problem listed before sometime in the past and believe it's a battery problem for the cmos (did I say that right?).  But would like a confirmation. Thanks.
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