Hello!

About a week ago I replaced the battery on my motherboard. Everything works
great except for my clock, which can no longer sync itself. Ivery time I try
to synch, I get the message "An error occured getting the status of the
latest synchronization. The RCP server is unavailable". I get this error in
spite of the fact that I have used several different servers. Any idea how
to fix?

Thanks,
Brad in Dallas

You could look at my thread in this newsgroup dated yesterday 1/22/08 titled
"Automatically Synchronize Clock". There are several good suggestions there.


"Raisincain" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:824D0C68-586E-409F-97A0-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello!
>
> About a week ago I replaced the battery on my motherboard. Everything
> works
> great except for my clock, which can no longer sync itself. Ivery time I
> try
> to synch, I get the message "An error occured getting the status of the
> latest synchronization. The RCP server is unavailable". I get this error
> in
> spite of the fact that I have used several different servers. Any idea
> how
> to fix?
>
> Thanks,
> Brad in Dallas

Thanks Ken. I read your post and the replies earlier today but no luck with
the suggestions.

I used Dimension 4 years ago but really don't want to install yet another
software program since this one should work.

Thanks again for the suggestion!

"Ken Triebold" wrote:

> You could look at my thread in this newsgroup dated yesterday 1/22/08 titled
> "Automatically Synchronize Clock". There are several good suggestions there.
>
>
> "Raisincain" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:824D0C68-586E-409F-97A0-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Hello!
> >
> > About a week ago I replaced the battery on my motherboard. Everything
> > works
> > great except for my clock, which can no longer sync itself. Ivery time I
> > try
> > to synch, I get the message "An error occured getting the status of the
> > latest synchronization. The RCP server is unavailable". I get this error
> > in
> > spite of the fact that I have used several different servers. Any idea
> > how
> > to fix?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Brad in Dallas
>
>
>

Try setting it correctly in the BIOS once and then see if it works
correctly after that.

Raisincain wrote:

> Hello!
>
> About a week ago I replaced the battery on my motherboard. Everything works
> great except for my clock, which can no longer sync itself. Ivery time I try
> to synch, I get the message "An error occured getting the status of the
> latest synchronization. The RCP server is unavailable". I get this error in
> spite of the fact that I have used several different servers. Any idea how
> to fix?
>
> Thanks,
> Brad in Dallas

Thanks for the suggestion Bob. I have already tried that but still no luck.
I think that the problem resides in the "An error occured getting the status
of the latest synchronization" part of the error I am getting but I don't
know what to do about it. I am writing this from another computer, which is
on the same network and has no problem getting the update, so I know its not
my network or the server. Hopefully someone will be along soon to shed some
light on this.

Thanks again,
Brad in Dallas

"Bob I" wrote:

> Try setting it correctly in the BIOS once and then see if it works
> correctly after that.
>

Perhaps port 123 isn't open?

SNTP defaults to using User Datagram Protocol (UDP) port 123. If this
port is not open to the Internet, you cannot synchronize your server to
Internet SNTP servers.



Raisincain wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestion Bob. I have already tried that but still no luck.
> I think that the problem resides in the "An error occured getting the status
> of the latest synchronization" part of the error I am getting but I don't
> know what to do about it. I am writing this from another computer, which is
> on the same network and has no problem getting the update, so I know its not
> my network or the server. Hopefully someone will be along soon to shed some
> light on this.
>
> Thanks again,
> Brad in Dallas
>
> "Bob I" wrote:
>
>
>>Try setting it correctly in the BIOS once and then see if it works
>>correctly after that.
>>
>
>

Hey Bob, how would I go about checking\changing that? Thanks!

"Bob I" wrote:

> Perhaps port 123 isn't open?
>
> SNTP defaults to using User Datagram Protocol (UDP) port 123. If this
> port is not open to the Internet, you cannot synchronize your server to
> Internet SNTP servers.
>
>
>
> Raisincain wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the suggestion Bob. I have already tried that but still no luck.
> > I think that the problem resides in the "An error occured getting the status
> > of the latest synchronization" part of the error I am getting but I don't
> > know what to do about it. I am writing this from another computer, which is
> > on the same network and has no problem getting the update, so I know its not
> > my network or the server. Hopefully someone will be along soon to shed some
> > light on this.
> >
> > Thanks again,
> > Brad in Dallas
> >
> > "Bob I" wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Try setting it correctly in the BIOS once and then see if it works
> >>correctly after that.
> >>
> >
> >
>
>

What firewall are you running on the PC in question.

Raisincain wrote:

> Hey Bob, how would I go about checking\changing that? Thanks!
>
> "Bob I" wrote:
>
>
>>Perhaps port 123 isn't open?
>>
>>SNTP defaults to using User Datagram Protocol (UDP) port 123. If this
>>port is not open to the Internet, you cannot synchronize your server to
>>Internet SNTP servers.
>>
>>
>>
>>Raisincain wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Thanks for the suggestion Bob. I have already tried that but still no luck.
>>>I think that the problem resides in the "An error occured getting the status
>>>of the latest synchronization" part of the error I am getting but I don't
>>>know what to do about it. I am writing this from another computer, which is
>>>on the same network and has no problem getting the update, so I know its not
>>>my network or the server. Hopefully someone will be along soon to shed some
>>>light on this.
>>>
>>>Thanks again,
>>>Brad in Dallas
>>>
>>>"Bob I" wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Try setting it correctly in the BIOS once and then see if it works
>>>>correctly after that.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>

Raisincain <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote on Wed, 23 Jan
2008:

>About a week ago I replaced the battery on my motherboard. Everything works
>great except for my clock, which can no longer sync itself. Ivery time I try
>to synch, I get the message "An error occured getting the status of the
>latest synchronization. The RCP server is unavailable". I get this error in
>spite of the fact that I have used several different servers. Any idea how
>to fix?

Hi Brad

Try unregistering and then re-registering the Windows Time service; this
often fixes a stubborn glitch.

Go to Start | Run and type cmd <OK> to open a Command prompt.

Now type the following commands:

net stop W32Time <Enter>

w32tm /unregister <Enter>

w32tm /register <Enter>

net start W32Time <Enter>

Now try synchronising again and see if anything's changed.

Hope this helps, let us know how it goes :-)
--
Nightowl

Nightowl; great suggestion! I followed your suggestion to the letter and all
is now well in the time-sync universe. Thank you so much for the great
suggestion and the idiot-proof instructions!

Regards,
Brad in Dallas

"Nightowl" wrote:

> Raisincain <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote on Wed, 23 Jan
> 2008:
>
> >About a week ago I replaced the battery on my motherboard. Everything works
> >great except for my clock, which can no longer sync itself. Ivery time I try
> >to synch, I get the message "An error occured getting the status of the
> >latest synchronization. The RCP server is unavailable". I get this error in
> >spite of the fact that I have used several different servers. Any idea how
> >to fix?
>
> Hi Brad
>
> Try unregistering and then re-registering the Windows Time service; this
> often fixes a stubborn glitch.
>
> Go to Start | Run and type cmd <OK> to open a Command prompt.
>
> Now type the following commands:
>
> net stop W32Time <Enter>
>
> w32tm /unregister <Enter>
>
> w32tm /register <Enter>
>
> net start W32Time <Enter>
>
> Now try synchronising again and see if anything's changed.
>
> Hope this helps, let us know how it goes :-)
> --
> Nightowl
>