Lots of weird stuff happening today

Question

So I'll just list the symptoms I've experienced in the last few hours, so far I can't seem to find a pattern, suffice to say the macbook is virtually unusable for my purposes. It's a 2010 Macbook white:

• Can't open Chrome
• Refuses to remember wifi password each time I reconnect
• Mail.app thinks it's offline
• Time keeps resetting to 12:00am
• Turns off randomly

I'm leaning towards blaming the battery, given the power loss and time resetting, however shouldn't there be a watch battery keeping time? Also I don't think I could explain the other issues blaming the battery. I suppose it's possible multiple things broke all at once. Thought I'd ask however and see if this isn't a known issue.

Thanks for any advice.

Answer 1

Turns out it was the battery. Got it tested for free at the Genius Bar, and they did the replacement for the cost of the battery.