Clock year problem

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Charles Smith

The year changes from year 2006 to year 2406. This used to happen only about
every few months. It seemed to happen about mid way through the month. I
upgraded to XP Pro in January, now since about mid March it has done it 3
times. The month, day, and time are correct, only the year changes. This is
my home PC, it's connect to an UPS so it doesn't seem to be a power glitch.
Anyone have any idea how to fix this problem.

Tom
 
Charles said:
The year changes from year 2006 to year 2406. This used to happen only about
every few months. It seemed to happen about mid way through the month. I
upgraded to XP Pro in January, now since about mid March it has done it 3
times. The month, day, and time are correct, only the year changes. This is
my home PC, it's connect to an UPS so it doesn't seem to be a power glitch.
Anyone have any idea how to fix this problem.

Tom
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Have you tried a new CMOS battery?
 
RobertVA said:
Have you tried a new CMOS battery?
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I don't know what his problem is, but it's almost impossible that a failing
battery could be the cause. A failing battery changing the year, but leaving
the month, day, and time correct is so very unlikely as to be almost
completely impossible.
 
Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:14:49 -0500 from Charles Smith <tomandval_79
@verizon.net>:
The year changes from year 2006 to year 2406. This used to happen only about
every few months. It seemed to happen about mid way through the month. I
upgraded to XP Pro in January, now since about mid March it has done it 3
times. The month, day, and time are correct, only the year changes. This is
my home PC, it's connect to an UPS so it doesn't seem to be a power glitch.
Anyone have any idea how to fix this problem.
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Have you done a full virus scan recently? This looks to me like some
rogue program, not like hardware.
 
Charles Smith said:
The year changes from year 2006 to year 2406. This used to happen only
about every few months. It seemed to happen about mid way through the
month. I upgraded to XP Pro in January, now since about mid March it has
done it 3 times. The month, day, and time are correct, only the year
changes. This is my home PC, it's connect to an UPS so it doesn't seem to
be a power glitch. Anyone have any idea how to fix this problem.

Tom
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One of two things:

1. Malware/virus activity; or
2. A hack or crack that you applied to something that changes the system
date to avoid detection.

Either way, you have something nasty.

Bobby
 
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