Re: [NTLK] Newton not Keeping Time

From: Laurent Daudelin (nemesys_at_cox.net)
Date: Tue Jul 09 2002 - 02:30:41 EDT

on 09/07/02 02:27, Johannes Wolf at mp2100_at_mail-gw.estec.esa.nl wrote:

> It sounds like a hardware error - that the RTC oscillator does not run at a
> proper speed.
> Your batteries are fine?
> Did you try to leave the Newt with the ac wall adaptor (let say over night)?
>
> Johannes
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net
>> [mailto:newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net]On Behalf Of Geof Abruzzi
>> Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 9:57 PM
>> To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
>> Subject: [NTLK] Newton not Keeping Time
>>
>>
>>
>> I just got a newton (2000, upgraded to 2100) that seems to work great,
>> with one small flaw: It's clock seems to run slow. After about a day,
>> it is already several hours behind. I can't hard reset it, because I
>> don't yet have any way to back it up. Is this a known problem? Is it
>> software or hardware?

I did experience something similar once when I got back my Newton from
Apple. Apparently, they said, some kind of calibration hasn't been done
properly.

-Laurent. 

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