From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 20 06:37:57 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA05954 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 06:37:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cepheid.physics.gla.ac.uk (cepheid.physics.gla.ac.uk [130.209.45.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA05898 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 06:37:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from flavell@a5.ph.gla.ac.uk) Received: from a5.ph.gla.ac.uk (a5.ph.gla.ac.uk [194.36.1.167]) by cepheid.physics.gla.ac.uk (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA15991 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 14:37:36 GMT Received: from localhost (flavell@localhost) by a5.ph.gla.ac.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA06373 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 14:37:35 GMT Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 14:37:35 +0000 (GMT) From: "Alan J. Flavell" Reply-To: A.Flavell@physics.gla.ac.uk To: freebsd questions Subject: RTC BIOS diagnostic error 17 Message-ID: X-antiSpam: Do not send me unsolicited commercial email MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Although my newly built freeBSD system (on an elderly 486 PC) seems to be performing in accordance with expectations, I'm still noticing this oddity at every startup: RTC BIOS diagnostic error 17 I hadn't found anything definite about this in FAQs or mail archives, but there was some indication it might point to a dead motherboard battery. Which would have been at least plausible, as the PC in question was quite old (but in DOS its real time clock looked OK). Anyhow, I tried replacing the motherboard battery, but it hasn't made any difference. Is this a matter that I should be concerned about, or not? thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message