[mad_as_he$$]

On the mother board there will be a small battery that keeps the the internal clock running. Replace that, go into the bios reset the date and time. When system boots save all the data to a CD (DVD burner will not work as I recall). Get new system, scrap this one. In any case get rid of word perfect and got to something made in this century. Quickbooks works very well for small business.

[Vinnie]

On the mother board there will be a small battery that keeps the the internal clock running. Replace that,.....

My first thought also.

As for upgrading to Win 98, unless he has at least 128megs. of memory, don't.

I had a Dell P200 w/ 64megs of RAM.( that was the max)
I upgraded to 98 2nd ed. so I could network my computers.
What a mistake. Anything I wanted to do caused the box to dip into the virtual memory. The harddrive was constantly clacking away. And SlOOOOOOw!

Finally went back to 95, ahh. So refreshing

[keat]

On the mother board there will be a small battery...

Bingo.

[AFPhys]

I still have a computer that I run W95 on. I believe that replacing the battery is the thing I would check first. It was my first thought, and I’m glad to see mad... beat me to the post.

I love how fast that machine boots up, and I do a lot of my quick note-taking on it, and then simply turn it off. Nice to have so little operating system overhead.

mnehrling’s “printer driver” suggestion is probably the solution to the WP situation, though.

[bt_dooftlook]

Are you saying that the weak battery is causing the computer to try to change to DST? BTW, I unclicked ‘Automaticaly adjust for DST’ while in safe mode and rebooted - still got lock-up.