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This is bizarre. I have a PC with Windows XP. The system clock in the lower right corner of the taskbar is running slow. When I reset it to the correct time, within 2 days it is almost 5 minutes behind. After a week it will be 10-15 minutes behind.
Has anyone encountered this random problem and is there a quick solution? |
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Easy fix. Right click the clock, choose "Adjust Date/Time", click the tab that says "Internet Time" and change the server to another time server.
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the computer's internal battery may be dying. how old is cpu?
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the computer's internal battery may be dying. how old is cpu? [/ QUOTE ] This is what you need to be concerned about, and before it totally goes in the middle of something. But the computer normally would have to be 4-5+ years old before it would happen in my experience, which is replacing batteries a couple times over the years. |
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clock doesn't matter for our purposes of reliability. (unless you're running a datamiming group)
if it's REALLY bad, have it sync the clock with an internet time server every 5 minutes... if it's just a little bad then every hour should be fine. |
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Easy fix. Right click the clock, choose "Adjust Date/Time", click the tab that says "Internet Time" and change the server to another time server. [/ QUOTE ] Yeah, this didn't work. I waited a couple days to make sure. After I did this (shortly after the post), I left it alone until now, when I just reset it -- it was 3 minutes slow by now. Someone asked how old the CPU is -- it's almost 2 years old. Could it be the battery already? |
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AFAIK, the battery doesn't do anything while the computer is powered on. I've had machines with completely dead CMOS batteries that worked fine as long as power was never removed.
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Windows only updates its clock once a week if you have it checked off.
If its really a concern then just do a search for a windows clock updater. Or go here...this place has a free one: http://www.worldtimeserver.com/atomic-clock/ Or here: http://www.hsinlin.com/software/time_sync.html |
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