topic Re: S2218 notebook Date not retained in Notebook / Netbook

S2218 notebook Date not retained

Goldflipflop — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 09:21:15 GMT

For my S2218 notebook the Date/TIme is not retained after power off. Does this machine have a replaceable CMOS battery? If not, any suggestions for solving this?

Re: S2218 notebook Date not retained

Fishtown — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 19:59:42 GMT

Hi @Goldflipflop and welcome

According to this German contribution, she has a CMOS battery

https://community.medion.com/t5/Notebook-Netbook/MEDION-AKOYA-S2218-MD-99595-wie-%C3%B6ffnen-um-CMOS-Batterie-zu/m-p/51145?search-action-id=64215950669&search-result-uid=51145

bye Fishtown

Re: S2218 notebook Date not retained

Goldflipflop — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 04:50:57 GMT

Thank you to Fishtown for the pointer to another contribution.

My S2218 had been without power for about 6 months. I think the main battery was completely empty. After the machine had received some charge it was able to run. It started with a default date. After a short run with network connection it received network time. The S2218 realtime clock was then correct. After a power down and restart the Date and TIme started correctly without any network update. Problem gone away!

I think this means the Realtime clock is supported by the Main battery possibly indirectly via a rechargeable motherboard battery.