[Info-vax] Openvms AXP clock problem

[David Turner]

I had this on a DS10 box once ( a long long time ago)
I thought it was the Dallas clock - turned out to be the power supply

DT



On 10/14/2016 8:05 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>  <sandrokan at sandrokan.it> wrote:
>> Dear All,
>> I have a strange problem with my DEC 2000 axp running openvms 6.2
>> The system boots fine and works fine. The problem comes when I shutdown the=
>> system. If I keep it off for 30 minutes and I boot it again the system tim=
>> e is 30 min delayed. In other words instead of following the hardware clock=
>> the VMS  is continuing with the time of the last shutdown.
>> I imagine that there is a parameter in sysgen or similar that should tell t=
>> he VMS to follow the hardware clock but I could not find it.
>> I also looked online but the only problems reported where about the contino=
>> us request of date and time at boot (this doesn't apply to my issue)
>
> It's possible for the toy battery to get sufficiently low that it can't
> run the toy clock any more, but it's still able to provide enough voltage
> to keep the cmos memory backed up.  When that happens, this is the usual
> result.
> --scott
>