Hi Derek

It sounds like the internal PRAM battery us flat.

Regards
Daniel Forsdyke
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An Apple iPhone4 creation

On 20/05/2011, at 13:10, Derek Perry <dperry...@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> Can anyone solve this problem for me?.
> When my e-mac has been switched off at the wall socket for a couple of days, 
> I get this message,
> Your computerclock clock is set to a date before March 24th 2001, this may 
> cause some applications to behave erratically,
> Please use the date & time preference panel to set the clock manually.
> When I go into time preference the date is 1971, I then reset clock, & date, 
> time zone hasn't changed,
> I then try to get on the internet only to find that I can't, & I have to 
> re-configure my internet connection including password, even though it was 
> supposedly saved in keychain,
> If the computer is just shutdown, with the power still going to it then 
> everything is fine.
> This problem has been bugging me for sometime now
> I am not too bothered for myself as I have just ordered a new imac, but will 
> soon be passing the e-mac to my son.
> e-mac power pc G4
> 1.25GHZ
> 512mb Ram
> Thanks
> Derek
> 
> 
> 
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