my pc's clock is constantly gaining!

[squidman]

Hi, i've never encountered this before: my pc's clock is faster. In couple of hours, it gains about 30 seconds! What could be causing this, considering the fact that everything works fine?

 

[weqo]

uhh pc clock as in that the time kept lets say in windows at lower right? .. ehh ill just assume ur talking about that..well anyways ur clock is kept by ur motherboard and runs off the battery on the motherboard...i wouldnt know whats causing it but thats all i know bout the clock...

 

[JBT]

My GF's PC clock at work will always leap 2 minutes ahead then she will put it back. little while later back to +2 minutes

 

[squidman]

thanks! But what i am asking is, does this awkward problem have any negative effect? Could bios update correct this? Cuz i corrected it like a week ago, and today, it had already gained +8 minutes. And also (this doesnt happen in bios screen) if i look at the second hand in my win xp, it moves 4 sections than stalls, than moves 4 sections, then stalls. It doesnt affect PC's performance (all the benchies show appropriate (for the h/w) results). but why is this happening?

 

[squidman]

just read couple of articles of people with the same problem. Apparently, it doesnt affect anything but the time stamps on emails, savegames, documents, etc. I am jut overreacting - probably cuz none of my built-pc had any problems at all. Like my "wise" frind says "f this".
Thanks guys!

 

[squidman]

ooh! i just discovered the handy-dandy atomic clock sync feature!

 

[randomlinh]

i notice you have an asus board.... the a7n8x. seems to be a common theme here. and no, windows doesn't get it's time from the bios, because my bios clock is fine while my windows is usually ahead.

here's a question for you, are you overclocking?

 

[FrustratedUser]

That's what happens when you overclock.



j/k

 

[randomlinh]

thing is, this didn't start happening to me until recently... about 3 months after i had overclocked.