On 05/29/2017 07:42 PM, William Mattison wrote:
The clock was about 5 seconds slow compared to my "atomic"
clock. I adjusted that. This morning, the clock seemed barely noticeably slow compared
to that atomic clock, but by less than a second. So I'm agreeing with your suspicions
that the battery is getting low.
If your battery is getting low, it's just barely starting. Usually,
when it becomes an issue, you see a change of minutes per day, not one
or two seconds. Still, changing it can't hurt. However, your hard disk
issues are making me wonder if either the disk or the controller aren't
at fault. It's clearly a hardware issue to me, but there are still
several possibilities for just what's gone bad.