Re: [Freedos-user] Old BIOS issue

2020-10-19 Thread ZB
On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 07:20:32PM +0200, Eric Auer wrote: > It basically says there are many ways in which hardware or > software could fail to handle the year, but you do not say > WHICH of them affect YOU. In particular, you could give it > a try and change that "19" to "20" in your CMOS

Re: [Freedos-user] Old BIOS issue

2020-10-17 Thread Ralf Quint
On 10/17/2020 9:33 AM, ZB wrote: Does there exist any DIY to fix "millennium bug" in old BIOS (no update available, unfortunately)? I mean "real fix, not workaround" - finding the proper cells in BIOS, modifying contents accordingly, burning... done Well, short answer: No. There are literally

Re: [Freedos-user] Old BIOS issue

2020-10-17 Thread ZB
On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 08:47:35PM +, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user wrote: > There's Y2KPatch which did the job on the dozen-or-so computers I had access > to at the time. Be warned, however, that I make absolutely no guarantees as > to how it will work on your system... I was a very

Re: [Freedos-user] Old BIOS issue

2020-10-17 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
There's Y2KPatch which did the job on the dozen-or-so computers I had access to at the time. Be warned, however, that I make absolutely no guarantees as to how it will work on your system... I was a very young coder circa 1999, and I haven't revised it since. You can find it here in the QBASIC

Re: [Freedos-user] Old BIOS issue

2020-10-17 Thread ZB
On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 07:31:02PM +0200, userbeit...@abwesend.de wrote: > Wow! Thanks for the link to Y2kure! This is the fix I absolutely prefer > for most of my older systems, since I deem any meddling with the BIOS > too dangerous... I just don't have the know-how to repair a possible >

Re: [Freedos-user] Old BIOS issue

2020-10-17 Thread ZB
On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 01:39:41AM +0800, TK Chia wrote: > I guess it cannot hurt to ask a few questions: > > 1) What does the PC say that the "current date" is, at startup? It properly keeps hour:minutes, month and day - just changes the "year" always to "2094". I came up with workaround -

Re: [Freedos-user] Old BIOS issue

2020-10-17 Thread TK Chia
Hello ZB, hello Eric, I found some basic information here: https://www.daqarta.com/y2kure.htm (I mean "BACKGROUND" paragraph), but when possible I'd like simply to modify BIOS and resolve the problem "once for always" It basically says there are many ways in which hardware or software could

Re: [Freedos-user] Old BIOS issue

2020-10-17 Thread userbeitrag
ZB wrote on 17th of October 2020: I found some basic information here: https://www.daqarta.com/y2kure.htm (I mean "BACKGROUND" paragraph), but when possible I'd like simply to modify BIOS and resolve the problem "once for always" Wow! Thanks for the link to Y2kure! This is the fix I absolutely

Re: [Freedos-user] Old BIOS issue

2020-10-17 Thread Eric Auer
> I found some basic information here: https://www.daqarta.com/y2kure.htm > (I mean "BACKGROUND" paragraph), but when possible I'd like simply to modify > BIOS and resolve the problem "once for always" It basically says there are many ways in which hardware or software could fail to handle the

Re: [Freedos-user] Old BIOS issue

2020-10-17 Thread ZB
On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 06:44:20PM +0200, Eric Auer wrote: > Hi! In which sense do you suffer from which bug exactly? > > Does int 1a function 4 return the wrong century? Wrong > year? Wrong other date fields and function 5 fails to > let you fix it? A simple TSR could override those calls. > >

Re: [Freedos-user] Old BIOS issue

2020-10-17 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! In which sense do you suffer from which bug exactly? Does int 1a function 4 return the wrong century? Wrong year? Wrong other date fields and function 5 fails to let you fix it? A simple TSR could override those calls. I fail to remember any other BIOS function handle years and

[Freedos-user] Old BIOS issue

2020-10-17 Thread ZB
Does there exist any DIY to fix "millennium bug" in old BIOS (no update available, unfortunately)? I mean "real fix, not workaround" - finding the proper cells in BIOS, modifying contents accordingly, burning... done -- regards, Zbigniew ___