I recently got an old Thinkpad 365XD from a friend, so I'm thinking about DIPPING into the Linux...but anyway, every time i start it up, I get a prompt for the date/time. I replaced the battery, double checked the wires (i had to re-solder the ONE to the battery holder, not sure about the ones on the board), but still the prompt. There is an autoexec.bat and config.sys file, but they're blank (i've noticed that on my OLDER systems with windows 98 too....). Any help is greatly appreciated.

Edit: looked through some old posts....Windows starts fine, but it also reminded me. Whenever I start, it runs scandisk, and afterwards once i get to the desktop it asks to restart to install new hardware. It keeps asking this whenever i shut down and start up again. There aren't any programs such as Deep Freeze on it that I know of...

Stats:

Windows 98
100mhz
775mb Hard Drive
40mb RAM

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... I replaced the battery, double checked the wires (i had to re-solder the one to the battery holder, not sure about the ones on the board), but still the prompt....