"jime" said:
My BIOS clock is losing a lot of time and therefore the date/clock is always
wrong.
Ideas?
Jime
The basic time keeping mechanism is explained here. Windows
maintains its own version of a real time clock, and the
clock most likely is incremented via whatever hardware
event drives the task scheduler.
http://www.itc.virginia.edu/desktop/dci/timeloss.html
A question that was asked of you previously, is whether
the time keeping function works better if you just sit
in the BIOS setup screen that shows the clock. While sitting
in the BIOS screen, you would be observing the operation of
the hardware RTC clock. The hardware RTC clock maintains time
when the computer is sleeping, or the computer is unplugged.
Chances are, it is some software that is causing the problem.
Using a NTP (network time protocol) client and synchronizing
the clock will certainly fix the problem, if you have an
Internet connection that is available when the client wants
to talk to a time server. But using NTP or W32tim service,
just hides whatever else is wrong with the system. The
time keeping should work reasonably well on its own, without
need of NTP (although if you do a web search, you'll see many
articles extolling the virtues of NTP and time servers).
There are chipsets with some kind of interrupt/timekeeping
issues (nforce2), but I don't think your Intel chipset is
one of them.
Paul
