Strange WinXP clock problem

[TheGrandHooHa]

Okay, here's an interesting one:

Back in February, I installed Linux, which is notorious for not being able to manage the system clock. It was always off by like 5 minutes or so. Whatever. So I stopped using Linux for whatever reason, and went back to XP. I didn't reinstall XP, I went back to the same XP install that used to have a properly functioning clock. However, now the XP clock exhibits the same problem as the Linux clock: set it, and 5 minutes later it is off by 10 seconds already! I know Linux cannot be affecting the clock if I am not running it, so what happened that my clock used to work fine and it is now borked to hell?

Any help is appreciated.

-Tghh

 

[imported_tightflks]

check your bios for the system clock, maybe thats off

 

[TheGrandHooHa]

System clock was just fine. I set the time in the system clock, ran XP for about 10 mins, and it is off by 10 seconds.

 

[LTC8K6]

Low CMOS battery?

 

[bamacre]

Double-click on the clock, and that will bring up the "Date and Time Properties Box."

Click on the "Internet Time" tab, and check "Automatically synch with Internet time server." Put in...

time-a.nist.gov

...for the server. This will keep your computer's time accurate.

 

[TheGrandHooHa]

I have it set up to synch every week like you said, but the problem is that by the end of the week, it is off by 30 minutes or so, so I would really liike to know what bent it out of whack.

Battery replacement was the first thing I tried...no dice.