clock losing time

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Jeff Stapleton

hello

ever since i started running vista rc 1 my system clock seems to be way off
quickly.

let me explain it seems to lose about 2 minutes an hour.

has this happened to anyone else?

i was running xp pro and it held perfectly

comments

thx
 
It could possibly be a failing battery inside your computer located on the
motherboard, which would actually have nothing to do with Vista. If you
unplug your computer for an hour or two and turn it back on, and your time
is way off (more than it was), then you probably have a bad battery. If
your battery is bad, you're looking for a CR2032 battery more than likely,
which is round and flat. You can buy them at about any place, and they're
very cheap. It is possibly one of the cheapest repairs you can do to a
computer without it being free.
 
if i can point out one thing i may have missed in my initial message my
computer is on 24/7 so the cmos battery is not the issue. the computer does
not use cmos battery when it is on wall power. as i said this was not an
issue with xp pro.

thank you for that advice though the battery is less than one month old the
computer is only 6 months old, i always replace the cmos battery every 6
months whether it need it or not
 
When you check the system time in the BIOS is it also incorrect? This seems
to not be a Vista issue, but rather a BIOS or a hard ware issue.
 
well it started when i installed vista
it was working perfectly before then on xp pro
 
if i can point out one thing i may have missed in my initial message my
computer is on 24/7 so the cmos battery is not the issue. the computer
does not use cmos battery when it is on wall power. as i said this was not
an issue with xp pro.

thank you for that advice though the battery is less than one month old
the computer is only 6 months old, i always replace the cmos battery every
6 months whether it need it or not
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Really? Why change it that often - though I agree, they are not very
expensive.
 
Rock said:
Really? Why change it that often - though I agree, they are not very
expensive.
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force of habit from work, i get the batteries for nothing so i just did it.
once had one of my 3 puters forget the hard drives.....what a nightmare that
was
 
Yes my clock keeps losing time also..worked perfectly under xp..even went
back to xp and time was ok and reinstalled vista and lost time again...I
just put a synchronization program on there for now. I am sure it's a
microsoft problem..

Alec
 
I first posted this in Oct., 2001

It also applies to Vista!

"Windows XP, as loaded, automatically updates the system time every 7 days
from one of two time servers. This interval can be changed as follows:

Using regedit, search (ctrl/F3) from the top of the registry for
"specialpollinterval" without the quotes.

You will see that the decimal value is 604800, the number of seconds in 7
days.

Edit this decimal value to any value you desire, remembering that there are
86400 seconds in one day, 3600 seconds in one hour. Save the change!

Press F3 to search for the next instance of "specialpollinterval".

Do this for each instance found.

When at the end of the registry, close the registry.

Reboot system.

Cheers!!!"


--

Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Vista has incorporated the **new** Microsoft clock feature. They figure if
they can slow everyone's clocks down they might be able to release a new
Windows version on time and no one will notice.
 
Vista has incorporated the **new** Microsoft clock feature. They figure
if
they can slow everyone's clocks down they might be able to release a new
Windows version on time and no one will notice.
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Lol...
 
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