Don't know what else to call it and I don't know for sure if this fits in hardware but here's the deal.
My 4000D had more or less been off for a few years. The last few weeks I've played around with it a lot and it's been on more or less 24/7.
Here's the strange thing. Whenever I turned it off and left it off for more than a few minutes the time was always set back to some date in 2004. This made me believe that the battery was dead.
Now, last night I decided to reformat all partitions so I backed up, reformatted and copied everything back. After this I turned the thing off and left it off. It's been over 12 hours. Strange thing is that when I turned it on now it showed the correct date and time.
I really don't understand how this could be. Obviously the battery isn't dead since this happened but how can a simple reformat suddenly make the battery backed up clock work again?
Not that I'm complaining, rather the opposite, but I can't figure out what was wrong before. Another strange effect that i noticed was that on my second boot partition CGX didn't work properly before. It opened up on a RTG screen but I couldn't see any CGX screenmodes. Now after this reformat that suddenly works as well, I can now see all screenmodes and select between them again.
Anyone that has a good explanation for this?
