Losing Time?

[Rudy Toody]

I have four identical computers:

Asus A8R-MVP
AMD Athlon FX-60
OCZ PC3200 1GB as 2x or 4x configuration
ANTEC TruePower 650W
Seagate SATA 5000GB as 2x, 3x or 4x configuration
ATI X1900 AIW
Microsoft Windows XP Pro 64

One box loses 2+ minutes per hour. All the others are fine.

I can synchronize them with the government time, and an hour later, one of them is slower by 2+ minutes.

Does anybody know how to fix this?

 

[shadowofthesun]

Try replacing the battery on the CMOS of the bad computer. That is what keeps track of hardware time.

Also, make sure you have no spyware or viruses (some of them will alter the system time).

 

[Rudy Toody]

Originally posted by: shadowofthesun
Try replacing the battery on the CMOS of the bad computer. That is what keeps track of hardware time.

Also, make sure you have no spyware or viruses (some of them will alter the system time).

Thanks, shadowofthesun. I'll get a new battery, tomorrow. I think it's just the ticket!

 

[ForumMaster]

while shadowofthesun's point is valid, i doubt it's the culprit. since the systems are still plugged into the wall, the BIOS battery shouldn't be effecting the time. make sure though that the time in the BIOS is correct. a discurpency between the time in windows and the BIOS will cause windows to change it's time. although that should only be happening every reboot.

 

[Scarpozzi]

If you're truly synchronizing with a time server, you shouldn't have this problem unless the time server is slow. Could you possibly be running another application that's changing the time between default windows time syncs?

The client for Netware does this and there may be some other eye-candy gui apps that do it too.