Time stops

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After my computer comes out of hibernation I notice the time shown in the
system tray is stopped at the time it entered hibernation and has to be
adusted. I thought that XP adjusted itself automatically if connected to a
broadband service. Any suggestions to sort this one out would be
appreciated.

Cheers

Rod Gayford
 
What kind of computer is it? How old is it? You might be needing to
replace a battery on the mobo.
 
Hi,

As Colin has indicated, it is probably a dead CMOS battery. As to why it
hasn't synched back up, you may not have allowed enough time for it to
happen, or the Windows Time services is not running. Click start/run, type
services.msc and check that the service is a) running and b) set to start up
automatically.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
Tenshodman said:
After my computer comes out of hibernation ...
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Which means the computer has powered down, so the only way the RTC
(real-time clock) circuit can track time is by remaining powered by a
battery.
... I notice the time shown in the system tray is stopped at the time it
entered hibernation and has to be adusted.
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Which means you need to replace the CMOS battery. It's dead.
Non-rechargeable batteries die eventually. Rechargeable ones eventually
won't charge sufficiently to maintain the required voltage or current draw.
I thought that XP adjusted itself automatically if connected to a
broadband service.
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Broadband gives you Internet access. That's it. You don't get every
service that exists everywhere. If you want to sync your time to an NTP
(network time server), you'll have to configure the Windows Time service to
connect to one or use a utility, like Socketwatch, to find them for you to
get sync'ed up.
 
Hmm. I switched the computer off and left it off all night and when I
powered up in the morning the time was spot on. I thought if the mobo
battery was expired you would lose your coms set up and thats not happening.
To me it all a mystery but I will put in a new battery and see what happens.
Thanks for the suggestions always appreciated.

Cheers
Rod Gayford
 
Tenshodman said:
Hmm. I switched the computer off and left it off all night and when I
powered up in the morning the time was spot on. I thought if the mobo
battery was expired you would lose your coms set up and thats not
happening. To me it all a mystery but I will put in a new battery and
see what happens. Thanks for the suggestions always appreciated.
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I don't know what your problem is, but if you're not losing time while
powered off, it's not the battery.

On the other hand, batteries are very cheap and it doesn't hurt to try
replacing it you want to.
 
Tenshodman said:
Hmm. I switched the computer off and left it off all night and when I
powered up in the morning the time was spot on. I thought if the mobo
battery was expired you would lose your coms set up and thats not
happening. To me it all a mystery but I will put in a new battery and see
what happens. Thanks for the suggestions always appreciated.

Cheers
Rod Gayford
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So, you do not lose time when you power off the computer. But you say that
time gets lost if you hibernate which is merely copying the system RAM to a
file on the hard drive and then powering down. So in both cases, you were
powered down. The difference in powering up is that from hibernation the
file is read from the hard drive and put into memory to put your machine
nearly in the same state as before you started hibernation mode. So my
guess is that you are running some software that doesn't like to have an
image of itself loaded in memory during startup from hibernation mode and
wants to load itself using on an initial execute of the program. Some
programs will interfere with hibernation mode. Some hardware is that way,
too (but mostly for coming out of hibernation mode because memory got
restored to what it was before but the devices only get initialized and not
restored to exactly the same state provided they actually have more than one
state to be in).

Try using msconfig to disable all startup items, close ALL applications
before going into hibernation mode (so none of them get loaded into memory
on power up), then go into hibernation mode and power back up afterward to
see if you still have the time loss problem. Also make sure to update your
hardware drives. However, make sure you can get a copy of those drivers at
the current versions that you are using and pretty much work okay now,
because being a newer version doesn't mean it is a better version (I have
run into problems with newer ATI video card drivers that forces me back to
prior versions). Presumably you have applied all updates to Windows since
some address the RTC (real-time clock) and hibernation.
 
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