If you are working on your laptop and have to move away for a while, you should put it to sleep ideally. This way you can pick up your work from where you left it, also, it saves electricity and your ...

Your laptop's motherboard is probably shot.. The system timer is part of the chipset, either the super I/O chip or the southbridge.. <BR><BR>If it was the CMOS battery going bad, your system would ...