Some hardware which fails the above tests may still be used by manually setting the clock. If the clock cannot be manually overridden, then the hardware will be non-functional after 1999. All Macintosh hardware is fully year 2000 compliant. Most, but not all, Pentium class machines are fully compliant. Most late-model 486 machines fail one or more of the tests, but can be manually corrected.
Many earlier machines are non-compliant.
Computer manufacturers frequently change internal hardware even within the same make and model. As a starting point, testing is underway for most of the models currently used within the University, but the only way to be certain that a machine is compliant is to test it. Fortunately, each computing support group has free software which can be used to easily test a machine. If the computing hardware is not on the list, contact computing support staff to obtain testing software.