Two problems in Snow Leopard after Clean Install

[StandingInAlley]

Hey Guys!

I recently did a clean install of Snow Leopard and I'm facing two problems:

1) My Time seems to get reset by itself and its only when its connected to internet that the proper time is shown according to the time zone.

2) My Airport card which I have turned off, automatically turns on. This sometime happens either after awaking the laptop from sleep mode or after restart.

When I upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard the previous time, i wasn't facing these problems but after clean install, i have been seeing these two things happening quite often.

Any fix ?

Thx

[drshdw]

Everything up to date?

[StandingInAlley]

Yes! Everything is up to date.

[PNWDweller]

I can't answer on the wireless card as I have mine set to connect wirelessly only.

As for the time issue, this is a shot in the dark, but...Are you sure that your time zone is correctly set in the System Preferences?

[StandingInAlley]

It happens in Windows 7 as well as Mac and on every restart. Yes! Timezone has been setup correctly. I think its CMOS battery which seems to have died :s

[Buzz99]

Yes, I would say change the CMOS battery.

[StandingInAlley]

This is kinda sad because the MBP is not even fully two years old :/

Thank God for Apple Protection

[Phantom Helix]

Do you have Windows 7 installed in bootcamp? if you do and you have not installed the bootcamp drivers properly they included a small utility thats runs in the background to make the time stay correct on both 7 and SL

the reason for this is that OS X and Windows read the system time from the mainboard differently and Windows screws it up and changes it (Sometimes your timezone aswel) then when you start OS X it has the wrong time until you go online but if Windows changed your timezone OS X will get the wrong time from online

If you can't get the Bootcamp Windows Vista drivers installed properly or are not using them then the best thing to do is set Windows to not get the time online and just set the time yourself, however this still sometimes will display the wrong time after going from OS X to Windows as it reads the system time wrong

[StandingInAlley]

^ AHA! Thx, I will check this out. All my drivers are perfectly fine because before this also I had Leopard + Windows 7 running and time used to be right.