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what would cause a clock to drift forward?

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nageov3t

Lifer
so, I've got a machine whose clock seems to be drifting forward 2-3 minutes every ~12 hours. nothing too noticeable in the short term, but wait a week and suddenly it's ahead by 20 minutes.

any clue what could cause a forward drift? I've experienced a backwards drift as a result of a dying CMOS battery, but never forward.

obviously it's fixable via time syncs and it's not causing any significant issues, but I'm a little concerned about what the underlying causes could be.
 
Actually, a low CMOS battery can cause a related clock to run fast as well as slow.
 
I'm also thinking bad memory and faulty CPU's - but probably not ones of today's market. I mentioned in another thread about an AMD XP Barton chip that had the core teensy bit chipped off from installing a HSF. It would not only report abnormal temps, but the clock ran a few seconds quicker. After a month, it would be a day or so ahead.
 
gaidensensei said:
I'm also thinking bad memory and faulty CPU's - but probably not ones of today's market. I mentioned in another thread about an AMD XP Barton chip that had the core teensy bit chipped off from installing a HSF. It would not only report abnormal temps, but the clock ran a few seconds quicker. After a month, it would be a day or so ahead.
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how many jigawatts was it?
 
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