Starting the real time clock on virgin systems

[steven james]

Greetings,

I have seen that. It figures!
I do note that it still needs bits 4-6 of index 0x0a set to 010b
At minimum, it will do no harm to set that on the Tyan boards.

G'day,
sjames

On 11 Dec 2002, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> steven james <pyro at linuxlabs.com> writes:
> 
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > if the init is what I think it is ( setting bit 5 in RTC index 0x0a, the
> > divider), it should be the same for all RTC. The part that tends to differ
> > is the PnP stuff. The index accesses from port 0x70-71 tend to stick to
> > standards.
> 
> Detecting battery failure also tends to vary to the extent that
> on some tyan motherboard via chipset systems the only way I have found
> so far is a cmos checksum.  The cmos clear jumper is actually a cmos
> corrupt jumper on that board.  On other boards cmos clear tends to set
> a magic bit. 
> 
> Eric
> 

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