System Date jumping on power off, any ideas?

95thrifles

95thrifles

95thrifles

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OK strange problem
I have taken to powering PC off at the wall as such, and in the past had no issues, however a few weeks ago I started my PC up and it booted up into windows OK but I had a coupla action centre issues telling me my time/date were out, and AVG said database was out of date, couldnt connect to windows live or open up many/if any web pages
Checked date n time and seemed ok, took me ages to realise the date had jumped forward 2 years??? (still had same date just year was wrong, i.e. 3/12/2011) Reset this and all back to normal
However its just done it again this morning, though only jumped forward one year, also noticed this time, all my web cache was gone (had to relog into here, facebook etc) and OC had reset - these may of happened first time too not sure
Only thing I can think is battery on mobo is dying and not retaining enough charge long enough when completely powering off? Anyone come accross this before or got any other ideas?
 
Web cache is time sensitive so explains why that after one year your logins would need updating.

+1 on the battery replacement. It's clearly not fully depleted otherwise you'd be at bios defaults every cold boot.
 
Cheers guys, had pretty good feeling that was it just wanted to dbl check
Never come across it before as always used to leave PC switched on, and everyone I know does too, but last gf could hear the faintest hum even when PC off but plugged in, after a while I started to hear it to, now it does my head in when trying to get to sleep, wouldnt mind but split up with her earlier in year too but it still annoys me (wish I had a spare bedroom to use as an office), lol
 
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