Whats up with my clock?

[smaxted]

Everytime I shut down my computer and turn it back on a little later my clock changes extremely..in win98 it goes from about 5 to 7 oclock in 5 mins whats up? Scotty Mac a.k.a smaxted

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[Eguy]

smaxted;

When the CMOS battery on the motherboard is getting weak, one of the first things to go wacky is the clock.

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[genrlj1596]

I strongly agree with Eguy cmos battery problem. If not I would be shocked. Hey let us know if it turns out not to be the battery.

 

[cdogg]

The "Windows Clock" is often misunderstood. Your CMOS battery keeps the time 24/7/365 - I think everyone would agree there. When you boot up, Windows reads the time from the "RTC clock" (a.k.a the time stored in BIOS/CMOS). As soon as Windows is completely up, the RTC clock is no longer monitored. Windows runs a "software" clock, so to speak. There are many cases of this software clock falling behind or running too fast. Low resources can cause this.

When you reboot the clock resets itself back to the right time, correct? If it does, then that proves my point that it's not the CMOS battery (it's read only at startup and we see that the 'read time' is correct).

The only exception is if you're logging into a network (LAN or WAN). Login scripts can be written to sync your time with the network's. In that case, the server could be the problem.


Go here to learn more:

http://www.beaglesoft.com/mainfaqclock.htm

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[smaxted]

Thanks everyone for the help but it was my battery, when I booted it up after making changes it wouldn't save them so thats how I knew it was the battery! Thanks for all the help! You guys are great!
Scotty Mac a.k.a smaxted

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[cdogg]

There you go! Glad you were able to find the culprit!!

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[VKPro]

All is possible. If you are on a network, check for time sync scripts and if they are present, check and see if the server is set to the correct time zone