Clock in XP Keeps advancing 1 hour???

[resinboy]

I have a distinct feeling I got whacked by something I may have let through my Norton AV Software. My clock has been randomly advancing by 1 hour at least once a day. Anyone hear of this??? I have a new motherboard, ( 3 weeks old) so I doubt it's a CMOS battery, and nothing else seems to be affected. Also, I have been running XP for 3 months now, without this happening at all. This just started yesterday.

Resinboy

 

[c0rv1d43]

Interesting! You're set for the correct time zone, right? Are you logging onto a domain, or is this a standalone system? If you let it ride, does the system only advance by one hour, or does it continue to advance so that you might wind up several hours ahead?

- Collin

 

[resinboy]

don't know: I have been so pissed I have been setting it back every time. I will now let it go for a while to see what happens. Stand- alone computer btw. Correct time zone.
-MORE INFO- It also jumps during boot-up: when I hit the desktop, she jumps an hour, leading me to believe it's in the start up process. I have been disabling things 1 by 1 in MSCONFIG, but haven't found the little bastard yet.

Resinboy

 

[c0rv1d43]

<< -MORE INFO- It also jumps during boot-up: when I hit the desktop, she jumps an hour, leading me to believe it's in the start up process. I have been disabling things 1 by 1 in MSCONFIG, but haven't found the little bastard yet. >>



Okay, you're gonna have to forgive me for, perhaps, being too literal. When you say "when I hit the desktop, she jumps an hour" are you using hit in the physical sense or hit in the visual (as in when I see the desktop come up) sense?

Heck, I know it's probably dumb, but inquiring minds (?) want to know!

- Collin

BTW, are you running a firewall? I wonder if something is phoning home from your system. I also wanted to know if this is an exact 1 hour jump or if it varies a little.

 

[resinboy]

when I reach the desktop, and the hard drive stops mumbling
I have left the clock alone, and it appears that it hasn't advanced past the 1 hour thing. If I set it back manually, it advances again within 5 minutes or so. I hope whoever thought this one up gets file corruption on their hard drive!!!

Resinboy

 

[Doomer]

IF... You are running Win XP
AND... You have it configured to automatically set the clock via the net
AND... You have the wrong time zone set

It will do this.

Either disable auto update or set it to the correct time zone and all will be well.

 

[resinboy]

yes, no, and no

I found the little bastards ( plural)
I have these 2 files in the startup that I don't recognize:

NWIZ.EXE
dumprep 0-K

I do not remember them being there before, and if I have EITHER of these boxes checked, it'll bump the time by 1 hour.
Only taken me about 20 reboots to figure this out
EDIT Nwiz looks like an Nvidia file ????? Here is the exact file:"NWIZ.EXE-2D374245-PF".
This is a prefetch file( I have no clue). It is in with the 2710 drivers I have been using. It has a "date modified" of yesterday, when I initially noticed the problem. ( maybe coincidental).
The dumprep file is a reg key entry, and has the following info:"%systemroot%\system32\dumprep 0-K





Resinboy

 

[Jhill]

Mine does that also but only once a week or so.

 

[c0rv1d43]

This is very interesting. I hope you'll beat this thing into submission and let us know what you find out about it. I hope it doesn't have a means of restarting this behavior from some other location on the system drive.

- Collin

 

[resinboy]

well, ya know how it is when something weird happens, you say to yourself" okay, what changes have I made recently??". Problem is, like most of us here, I do alot of tweaking, and sometimes change several things at once. I made a visit to one of the WinXP tweak sites a few days ago, and applied a couple of very minor tweaks I saw there- maybe a possibility.

Resinboy

 

[resinboy]

the SOB is back!!! With the above 2 programs de-selected, it no longer advances at boot, but has again started to change anywhere from 1 to 3 hours after boot up- grrrrr....



Resinboy

 

[nortexoid]

not sure if anyone mentioned it...

but there's this peculiar feature in XP that syncs your system clock w/ some internet clock

double click time/date in system tray, then "Internet Time", then uncheck the box.

if you have the wrong time zone set, and u keep resetting your clock one hour behind, it'll just keep resyncing w/ the internet time.