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Why does my clock keep losing time?

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konichiwa

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My computer clock seems to lose quite a bit of time every day. I just set it to atomic time this morning and by 7:30 it's almost four minutes behind. After leaving it for a week I find that it's nearly 20 minutes behind.

Is there a way to cure this? Or if not an atomic sync. program that will automatically do it every 2 hours or so?
 
Originally posted by: konichiwa
Windows XP, and I can't wind it or change the batteries, smartasses 😎
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The winding part definitely won't work 😛 but by batteries I think dighn means your CMOS battery cell?

I've been gaining time instead.. trying to figure out what's up.
 
It's either the battery on your mobo, or else, your computer is travelling at close to the speed of light while you're not around. (the probability of the latter is quite remote though)
 
I have that problem too but I didn't think it was the motherboard battery cause this is a brand new RDA+. Maybe it is I dunno
 
dont think so.

Mine keeps going back one hour for some unforseen reason. When you change you're battery, it'll reset every setting.
 
Replace the quartz crystal. It's obviously emitted too many beta gammatrons and that has irrevocably changed its crystal structure to the 16H polytype - which means that it oscillates at roughly 31396Hz.
 
The number one symptom when your CMOS battery is dying is that your clock lags behind. Guaranteed, I have seen this problem a dozen times and it was the CMOS battery everytime.
 
See if there's a known problem with your motherboard and time keeping - it's not unheard of for clocks to fail on some motherboards.

If your clock is off by a multiple of an hour, then check the time zone. Windows intelligently sets the time on a lot of newer machines.
 
The Flux Capacitor in your PC is trying to send you back to 1985 but you just never let it.

Leave it alone for a while and then when you've succesfully traveled back in time invest in a little company called Microsoft.
 
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