Satellite Pro 6100 often randomly turns off and bad RTC error

Hi, I recently bought a sp6100 and it worked fine at first but now it goes out often random and comes with BAD RTC ERROR at startup. As a musician who uses the pc, it is very painful and I lost much of my work. Anyhelp would be great. Conrad

HI Conrad,.

Power loss random is usually a symptom of overheating and can usually be cured by cleaning all dust and lint that built into the CPU radiator. A vacuum cleaner is a useful ally in so doing. Just put the hose against the grids of aspiration air for a few seconds.

The RTC error refers to the adjustment of the real time clock which is normally held by a small battery, usually mounted on the motherboard of your laptop. It is used to maintain the settings of the BIOS (including date/time) and is completely separate from your main laptop battery. Modification of the RTC (or CMOS) battery will involve some disassembly, so is best left to an authorized Service partner.

Kind regards

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