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Computer clock is too fast

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wetcat007

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The clock on my computer goes fast it's kind of annoying and sad not being able to trust my computer clock. Anyways I have an Abit NF7-S motherboard Amd Athlon XP 2800+ cpu, GeForce 6800GT graphics card, two seagate 250gb hdds. I've already tried replacing the CMOS battery, that didn't help any.

Anyone have any idea what would cause this and how it could be fixed?

Otherwise anyone know a way to get Ubuntu to sync with time servers every hour instead of everyweek?
 
actually i saw a post about this when trying to get ubutnu to install on my machine look at there site I think they have a wiki, irc channel, and forums

btw I think this is more of an operating system post
 
i don't know ubuntu, but try this: make sure that the BIOS clock is accurate. i've heard many time about the computer's clock being messed up cause the BIOS clock is wrong. check it.
 
Is it the hardware clock or software clock that gets out of whack? Hardware or software that ties up lots of interrupt time can do that to the software (OS) clock. Generally the OS clock syncs with the RTC at boot and not again until next reboot.
. Nothing should bother the hardware RTC unless it resets it all the time or the RTC is broken. Grab a utility that reads the hardware RTC directly so you can compare that with the OS clock. As you had guessed, resyncing with a known good clock frequently is one way around it. I think XP has a way to set the resyncing interval and source. Not sure if Linux comes with one but surely someone has written a utility out there to do the same.

.bh.
 
Check the bios clock, that's what my money's on. But yeah, linux and it's distros are open source. I'm sure you could get someone to compile an ubuntu version that has a modified system clock synchro.
 
If it happens in both Linux and Windows, it's almost certainly a hardware problem. Replacing a battery might help, but might not. Some motherboards are just flaky.

In Linux, install the ntp package to keep your clock synced.
 
See if the computer clock only gains time when the computer is turned on, if so then it's probably a problem with the Windows XP network time server.
 
Does it gain or lose any time after a reboot, or is it still on the same "clock?" When I installed Ubuntu on my P4 machine, it had really screwy date and time settings - after first reboot, it synched with the system clock just fine.
 
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