Changing BIOS to recognise past year 2010

[limboy777]

Hi

Does anyone know how to force my Amstrad Mega PC 386SX to recognise a year after 2010 (It only goes to 2010 in BIOS).

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[modem7]

Since we don't know what you have tried:

The 2010 limitation may be only in the CMOS/BIOS SETUP screen, and not limited elsewhere.
Have you tried running a DATE command in DOS, specifying a 4-digit year (e.g. "2012") for the year portion?

 

[limboy777]

Since we don't know what you have tried:

The 2010 limitation may be only in the CMOS/BIOS SETUP screen, and not limited elsewhere.
Have you tried running a DATE command in DOS, specifying a 4-digit year (e.g. "2012") for the year portion?

I will try this tomorrow but the date in BIOS cannot be changed. I noticed there are BIOS chips, can i replace these with more up to date ones?

 

[Chuck(G)]

It may not be that difficult. The AT&T 6300/Olivetti M24 has a clock chip that poops out well before 2000. A small driver that simply offsets the year by an appropriate amount does the trick. I suspect a similar fix may exist for your Amstrad.

 

[jaqiefox]

heck with a driver. (it's a very good idea but a lot of work compared!) you MIGHT be able to just make a batch file command to add x to the years on boot and put it in autoexec.bat though I don't remember the advanced batch file stuff, it may be possible with just original DOS tools.

 

[limboy777]

modem7

The Date command worked !

Thank you so much - I thought I would have to use some kind of software hack but it works.