System clock running fast

[Rubycon]

Updated in last post.

 

[furballi]

Occasionally a by-product of excessive overclocking. Some older boards have a separate quartz oscillator.

 

[Rubycon]

 

[furballi]

It's a long shot but I'd check the CMOS battery for proper voltage. Removing the battery will also reset CMOS. Recheck for problem.

 

[Operandi]

Ever since I started to underclock my AXP2800+ at idle I've gained a min or two a day but I've never heard of anything drastic as your situation. Is it possible for something to be wrong with the clock generator and still have the system functional?

 

[Bozo Galora]

since OP removed posts for some reason about new Dell stock PC system clock running 3X too fast , I have removed my answer

WTF???

 

[JimPhelpsMI]

Hi, Very very few MB clocks keep good time. Some worse than others. You can download programs that will pick up the correct time from the Internet everytime you go there automatically. There are some very old programs that will tweak the clock on the first boot of the day with an amount of time that you choose. I only have two machines running at the moment. One is set to add a +.705 sec and the other -.645 sec per day. Luck, Jim

 

[Bozo Galora]

Originally posted by: JimPhelpsMI
Hi, Very very few MB clocks keep good time. Some worse than others. You can download programs that will pick up the correct time from the Internet everytime you go there automatically. There are some very old programs that will tweak the clock on the first boot of the day with an amount of time that you choose. I only have two machines running at the moment. One is set to add a +.705 sec and the other -.645 sec per day. Luck, Jim

The solutions you gave are for clocks running like <15 minutes slow-fast per hour.
You are giving advice with incomplete info.
For OP topic, the PC was gaining 40 minutes in 20, apps seemed much faster.
This is a new prob with dual core CPU's, and how they are configured
However, MS Dawn pulled the question and one of her replies, so its irrelevant now, whatever her prob was.
Personally, I hink Dell unknowingly misconfigured ACPI HAL during install of XP, but ms dawn gave no further info and pulled the question.
Make a note - do not reply to her posts.

 

[Rubycon]

My apologies - I was going to update the original post(s) but was abruptly disconnected from the net for reasons beyond my control.

Actually, the problem was with a computer that doesn't belong to me and I have been asked not to discuss the details of what's in it or what was running at the time.

Now the original question about it running fast. Well indeed I remember way back in the 486/DOS days seeing this happen when a misbehaving application using a 32 bit extender would crash. Any program (most of them) that was dependant on the system clock would run ridiculously fast - from splash screens to king's qwest animations, etc. Rebooting would solve the problem. QEMM was installed then (remember the memory managers?) and it had a thing called the Quarterdeck Quickboot that would bypass going to the BIOS. Well even rebooting using that would not stop the insane time gains - a system RESET was required. Strange stuff. Anyway I thought it was strange to see this on a 64bit OS. :Q

 

[currybreakfast]

I have a 2800 XP athlon and my clock started to run overly fast (about 1 min every second ). I went to trash the system cos nothing would run (windows crashed, froze on bootup etc) and decided to give it one more try, to I reconnected the power, monitor and the keyboard and it is now working perfectly abain hope it helps

EDIT: I found that the date wouldnt move at all and the years jumped 30 years or more in either direction every hour system time (1 min real time). Dunno what the problem was or why removing everything fixed it but it worked, maybe will for you :s

 

[JimPhelpsMI]

Hi BOZO, No! the solutions I give are for any amount of inaccuracy in the clock. Quartz crystals used in the clock have a wide tolerance and no provision for trimming the frequency is provided. The last MB with a trimmer goes way back to the original IBM PC about 1982 and it was really for triming the Video freq. Jim