Clock aheads itself 20-30 minutes by itself

[Enigma256]

Does anyone know a reason why would a clock ahead itself by 20 minutes or so. Fresh installation of win2k professional. Thanks

 

[Davetoo]

If you're in a domain, the W2K Pro client will synch up with the DC clock.

 

[Enigma256]

Hi Lander,
I checked the registry for w32time and it looks fine. I compared with 3 other pc's as well. They are all in the same domain. Prolly will check the battery on the pc but I do not see how that will affect the time by going fast.

 

[uwgstl]

If there is a login script that is being run when you login to the network, it's possible that they are forcing synchronization with the Server clock.

 

[dougdingle]

W2K only checks the hardware clock when it boots, then *never* looks at it again. If the time is correct when you reboot, the hardware clock and battery are fine (unless, as someone else pointed out, you are getting the time at bootup from another server on your domain which is wrong).

You're not by any chance running an application called Auction Tamer, are you? It was causing those exact problems on my machine, and I finally gave up and stopped running it.