how does my PC's clock go faster ?

[rh71]

I had reset this thing to the rest of the clocks in this room (4 others)... and a few weeks later (now) it's at least 2 minutes faster (again). What's up ? It's a Barton 2800+ but I don't think the CPU speed should affect the OS clock...

I just upgraded the processor/mobo-Abit NF7/RAM a month ago and it didn't have this problem with my 1.0GHz/A7v mobo before.

 

[bradruth]

Bad system battery?

 

[her209]

net time /setsntp:<ip address>

 

[rh71]

I just tried the update via time.windows.com (was set to sync once a week) and it is correct with my other clocks now... so it wasn't that which threw it off... it actually went faster on its own.

 

[Harvey]

Could you have overwound the mainspring?

 

[cjchaps]

I go to time.gov myself.

 

[BillGates]

That's kinda odd because I have been noticing that my time has been making itself a bit faster lately too. My PC has a 2600+ on Win2k. I synched it with my satellite atomic clock a week ago and now it's 58 seconds faster. Not a big deal but odd. That clock, my cell phone, and my digital cable box are all exactly synchronized and never differ from one another.

 

[ElFenix]

motherboard makers use the cheapest digital clocks ever made is why.

 

[MournSanity]

It's over-clocked, heh heh heh

 

[Platypus]

bad cmos battery?

 

[randomlinh]

i had a problem w/ my nforce2 board (asus a7n8x dlx). Under XP, it would just advance at the rate of 1min every 40 seconds. I didn't have the time to mess with other OS'es though. It wouldn't happen all the time... the bios clock was perfectly fine though.

eventually I just ran a clock to autosync with the bios every 10 seconds.

i also wasn't the only only one. www.nforcershq.com had some ppl who had the same problem. Haven't been there in a while though.

 

[Electrode]

My PVR's Chaintech 7NIF2 mobo had a similar problem. For some reason, replacing the power supply fixed it.

 

[FungusFeet]

Originally posted by: hypersonic5
It's over-clocked, heh heh heh

You stole it from me...

 

[GeekDrew]

Good grief, if you think that's bad, you ought to see how much a Novell server will drift off of time in very short order (if not using a time server).

 

[Bassyhead]

my clock has been running fast recently as well. the cmos battery is fine. it can be off as much as a couple minutes a day or so now.

 

[WinkOsmosis]

My PC's clock has been doing stupid stuff lately. The other day it went 2 hours ahead. The next day it switched from PM to AM.

 

[Bassyhead]

wow, i got on my pc today and it was 15 minutes ahead. a new record for me. it has only been running for 13 hours or so. anyone got any ideas what is wrong?