I used an MR BIOS flash upgrade and installed a DS12C887. The year reads 2001. What happened?
Dallas Semiconductor Clock/CMOS RAM FAQTo date, we have had no response from MR BIOS about this problem. The engineering staffs at Dallas Semiconductor and RightTime suspect that the BIOS and the DS12C887 are each incrementing the century address at roll-over. In this case, users can either upgrade their BIOS or replace the Clock/CMOS RAM device, BUT NOT BOTH!
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Dallas Semiconductor Clock/CMOS RAM FAQDallas Semiconductor says that a small segment of devices in the Award 4.5X (i.e. the 4.50G and 4.51PG) series are incompatible with the DS12C887. It is best to test your system with one of the Y2K compliance analysis programs PRIOR to ordering a replacement. Year2000.Com is a small resident program for DOS, OS/2 and Windows published by The RighTime Company that fixes the year 1999 to 2000 date change flaw of the CMOS RTC in AT-class PCs and PS/2s, 286 through Pentium and its clones.
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Dallas Semiconductor Clock/CMOS RAM FAQYes. According to Dallas Semiconductor, the DS12C887 CAN correct older BIOS versions by providing four century digits at the 32H address. In this case, the system performs correctly (i.e. falls in the Y2K capable category) once the correct date is set. This is what you need to do or know, arranged in priority, BEFORE ordering a DS12C887 Y2K compliant device for your system. Resource 800 provides this information as a consumer service.
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How to upgrade the BIOS?
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