Severe new bug in firmware Q2D13?

[Mitch Bradley]

I have been told that the Uruguay machines are supposed to have good 
battery holders, so my earlier suggestion about coin-cell batteries 
popping out of the holder might be incorrect.  However, we have also 
seen a problem where some of the coin-cell batteries are defective, so 
it would be worthwhile to open the problem machines and inspect their 
batteries.  The defective batteries might have visible corrosion.

Emiliano Pastorino wrote:
> Scott,
> We're having serious problems here in Uruguay with firmware Q2D13. 
> Some laptops, after flashing them, show an "Invalid system date" error 
> at boot time. The laptop won't boot because after that it shows a 
> "Lease expired" message and tries to activate. We could activate the 
> laptop, but when you reboot it, the same error message appears.
> In the time between we activate the laptop and before we reboot it, we 
> could check the date, it says "mar nov 30 01:35:11 EST 1999". This 
> started to happen after we upgrade the firmware from Q2D07 (which had 
> an activation problem) to Q2D13. It seems that the
> I've attached three screenshots of the boot screen.
> We need someone to check this and solve the problem asap.