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I think DF is making my clock lag

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Poritz

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I have been noticing something in the last day since I have really turned to DF. My clock is getting behind by 10 minutes or more every hour or so. Not good! I am updating with time.nist.gov every so often. Has anyone else been seeing that the faster your DF is going the slower the clock gets. This should only happen in the real world not on the computer.

-Poritz
 
I second the notion that your battery on the MoBo may be headded south.

If you're running XP, you can tell your comp to synchronize with the internet.

(If your battery dies, you will loose your BIOS settings and your clock will not continue when the comp is off. You might want to make sure you write down your settings incase you have to replace the battery. )
 
I am running XP home and it is the dell so losing bios settings is not an issue as I can't change anything anyway. I have been updating with the adjust time/date by double clicking on the clock. I really hope the CMOS battery is gone because the computer is less than a year old.

-Poritz
 
Unfortunately, computers are notoriously bad time-keepers. I once had a machine that would be off about 12 hours every week. That kept getting worse and worse, too, as it got older. Sometimes you just get a bad clock chip in your computer. All you can do is keep it updating off the atomic clocks and let it be. It certainly isn't worth the money to get it fixed (unless it is still under warranty).

JHutch
 
Look in EventViewer and you'll probably find a few yellow bangs about it not being able to snyc up with time (W32someting?). If you're on an AD domain your system should sync with a DC. If not, you should be able to set your system to autoupdate itself on time. I don't remember the exact command to tell the system where to look for it but I know it exists. If someone doesn't know it I'll look around and see if I can come up with it.
 
Double-click your clock in the task bar, then select the 'Internet Time' tab.

You'll find a choice to tell it to automatically sync. with a time server
 
I can confirm that DC projects messed with my clock. I'm running seti, UD, and RC5. with seti and UD it doesn't hurt the clock, with seti and RC% the clock is still fine, but with all three together it is at least a day off at the end of the week when my computer trys to update the time. I am running win xp pro. I am certainly welcome to other suggestions which might fix this besides just run seti or something like that.
 
Well, that answers that. (it must be the clients) man, that would have to be annoying.

(Poritz, you were right on it all along)


Are you guyz upping the priority of the clients? (now I am really just grasping at straws) Maybe that's it ???
 
seti is at low priority and so is dnet, UD is whatever priority is default. I dunno if you can even change it.
 
You can change the priority of any process. UD starts at low, just like all DC clients do. Only some give the option to change to a higher priority IN the application. UD is not one of them. Both SETI & ECCp do.
 
Well I am glad to here that I could be just a software problem and not a hardware one. Anyone know if there is an app that autosyncs the time for you everytime you are on the net? XP will auto sync the clock every two weeks but that obviously won't remedy the problem.

-Poritz
 
Poritz,

Head over to www.download.com and type in 'clock' as the search parameter. It comes back with a big list of clock programs that can be adjusted to update at almost any interval. Just pick one that looks good and load it up.

JHutch
 
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