Not good and a common problem plauging 7700s as they get older. Usually a
sign that the CPU chip is going bad due to corruption. Usually in the early
stages the radio will finally lock on frequency after 15 to 30 minutes of
warming up and work fine after that, but quits doing this as it gets worse.

Definitely replace the backup battery and hard reset the radio. You might
get very lucky.

"David Trachtenberg" wrote in message
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Thanks in advance for the help.