even more technical difficulties

[psychoticnuance]

Alright, so just when I was getting super attached to playing Sims 2 on a laptop, the CMOS battery had to go and die out on me. For those who don't know, the CMOS battery is basically like a watch battery and is in charge of internal clock functions/BIOS settings. Right now the clock is stuck in an hour loop. This isn't much of an issue normally, but there's a chance that a serious error could pop up, which then makes it a Very Bad Thing. Normally I could simply replace it, however the CMOS battery is welded into the motherboard. I think for desktop computers it's different? Either way, I'm not going to buy a new motherboard for the laptop just to fix it's silly battery.

I might put off playing the game for some time while my brother makes a new custom desktop computer that should be fit to use.