Looses time

[Steve48]

Hello,

Here is probably an easy problem, or so I hope. My clock on the task bar keeps loosing about 7 min. a day! This loss happens even though the computer is powerd up. I could understand the problem being the CMOS battery IF the computer had been shut down all day, but that is not the case.

Specs: FIC 503+ Motherboard (1 year old)
AMD 233MMX CPU
128 MHZ RAM(64 PC 66, 64 PC 100)
SiS 4meg Video Card
Maxtor 10 Gig Hard Drive
USR 33.6 Hardware Modem
AT 300 Watt PSU
Inland PCI Soundcard

I know you guys will find the correct solution!

Thanks,
Steve


[This message has been edited by Steve48 (edited 04-21-2002).]

[slim]

Originally posted by Steve48:
Hello,

Here is probably an easy problem, or so I hope. My clock on the task bar keeps loosing about 7 min. a day! This loss happens even though the computer is powerd up. I could understand the problem being the CMOS battery IF the computer had been shut down all day, but that is not the case.

Specs: FIC 503+ Motherboard (1 year old)
AMD 233MMX CPU
128 MHZ RAM(64 PC 66, 64 PC 100)
SiS 4meg Video Card
Maxtor 10 Gig Hard Drive
USR 33.6 Hardware Modem
AT 300 Watt PSU
Inland PCI Soundcard

I know you guys will find the correct solution!

Thanks,
Steve


[This message has been edited by Steve48 (edited 04-21-2002).]


Steve,

I have come across a similar problem with one of my computers, if the CMOS battery is out of the equation then there is something else slowing the system down. In my experience I found the cause to be an old version of Norton antivirus hogging all the system resources in the background (100% CPU Usage all the time) and hence slowing the system performance. Once I turned the full time protection off in norton the CPU usage dropped by 90% and the clock kept time, since then i have installed a newer version of norton which does not have this problem.

So start by checking your system performance stats to see what CPU usuage is when the system is iddleing, it should be no more than 10% usuage, if it is higher than that something is draining too much resources and if this is the case, it unfortunately means bit of investigation work on your part.

Hope this helps

Slim

[Paleo Pete]

Some computers have clocks that just don't keep time, I'm not sure why. This one does the exact same thing, and I can find no reason for it. I downloaded a clock utility that connects to the US Naval Observatory in Washington DC and resets the Windows clock to the correct time.

The one I'm using is called About Time, it works great, and of course I have to be connected to the Internet to use it. I run it about once a week, and configure it to set the correct time when it opens. (Default is to wait till you click the "Set New Time" button.)

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[BigBlue66]

Hmmm, I think for $2, I would change the CMOS battery just for grins and giggles. Stranger things have happened and will continue to happen.

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[pentachris]

Sounds like a power problem. Possibly an underpowered power supply, possibly low voltage. Electronic clocks count the wave cycles of the incoming electricity and use that to calibrate the clock.

NetLab (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&q=netlab+1.4) is a good set of utilities that has time synchronization uncluded. Windows XP has an automatic time synch utility. But you might want to consider a UPS.

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[old_kid]

Blue is giving good advice

Replace CMOS battery asap - you are taking chance losing all BIOS settings while chasing around for other answers - for $2 why take that chance -

PC's do lose a little time each day but 7 minutes??

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