Thanks for the responses. As it turns out, disabling MODE32 causes the Mac to count seconds, but VERY slowly . . . about 3 seconds to every 1 second ratio. This seems to put an entirely new twist on it.
A visual inspection reveals no obvious damage or corrosion to the board level components around the battery. I did manage to dig up another IIcx, and I transplanted everything but the board into that machine. It has the same symptoms: time failing to count with MODE32 enabled, counting a second about every 3 seconds with MODE32 disabled.
I can't help but think this is unrelated to MODE32, as I and probably many of us have used it successfully on other machines, but for some reason, these two IIcxes seem to be stuck in a time warp whenever they address more than 8 MB of RAM. But I don't know what might be the actual cause of the change in symptoms upon disabling the extension.
A visual inspection reveals no obvious damage or corrosion to the board level components around the battery. I did manage to dig up another IIcx, and I transplanted everything but the board into that machine. It has the same symptoms: time failing to count with MODE32 enabled, counting a second about every 3 seconds with MODE32 disabled.
I can't help but think this is unrelated to MODE32, as I and probably many of us have used it successfully on other machines, but for some reason, these two IIcxes seem to be stuck in a time warp whenever they address more than 8 MB of RAM. But I don't know what might be the actual cause of the change in symptoms upon disabling the extension.