Window XP System Time too fast?

[travsav]

Ok, so I sync'd my system time with one of the windows time servers... about an hour later, I noticed the time seemed fast, so I sync'd it again... to find that it was already 8 minutes fast, what's causing this?

it's doing it all the time.

 

[travsav]

bump

 

[MrScott81]

sync it to a different time server?

 

[travsav]

when I sync it, it corrects itself... xp only sets itself to resync about once a week...

the time server isn't wrong, my computer is.

 

[johnjkr1]

Then you have a software problem. Most fast/slow time issues are caused by antivirus or other constantly running apps (cough, norton, cough). If this is a new problem, remove any new software. You can verify the problem by letting the system sit in safe mode and see if it speeds time up there as well.

 

[SemperFi]

Get AdAware and run it on your system. I have had this several times. As a matter of fact when I got home tonight my clock was an hour and a half fast from last night. Ran Ad Aware and it is still right on.

I got something at the begining of the year that when I got home from work it was almost a day fast. Some people must be really bored.

 

[Slikkster]

Useless comment: Right now, my system is running "half-fast". <rimshot here>

I agree with John that it's most likely some software issue.

 

[Hankysmoo]

Ack, I just experienced the same problem! Any solutions?

 

[johnjkr1]

Try safe mode. If it works fine in safe mode, start removing software (norton). There are programs out there that will continuously sync up your time, but that just covers up the real problem.

 

[jagec]

I once saw a BIOS clock that was going insanely fast. Like, 5 minutes per second. Now that's a fast computer!

 

[Hankysmoo]

I don't have norton. I have AVG though, would that be causing problems? I'll boot into safe mode to see if its still fast but if it is, then could it be a bad battery in the motherboard?

 

[fr0g]

I have the the same problem and the exact same motherboard. I'm not running any anti-virus software (the computer is behind a firewall and is only used to record and play tv). I'm not sure if it's related to the clock, but audio and video playback in various applications become garbled and unsynchronized after a while (usually ~30-40 mins).

 

[SynthDude2001]

Take a look at this thread. This seems to be a somewhat common issue in nForce2 motherboards, and I've experienced it on my Abit NF7-S 2.0 as well. It seems to have been fixed by changing the driver and disabling APIC as described in the linked thread.

I hope this fixes your problem!



EDIT:

Originally posted by: fr0g
I'm not sure if it's related to the clock, but audio and video playback in various applications become garbled and unsynchronized after a while (usually ~30-40 mins).

I used to have this exact same problem before when playing video, and now everything plays perfectly synchronized as it should.