Your Personal Computer has several issues that must be addressed to make sure it can handle the transition to the year 2000. In addition to the other problems, most PCs have problems with rolling over their internal real-time clock due to problems in their BIOS come Year 2000; networking PCs adds another dimension to the problem. Diagnosing, fixing, and testing this problem is made easier with the tools discussed in the following pages. To determine if your desktop personal computer is Year 2000 compliant, first take a look at our Flowchart for Determining Clock/BIOS Y2K Compliance.

Range of Year 2000 Compliance -- PC Internal Clock & BIOS