Incredibly, almost a year after I posted the message below to this
group, the problem has returned. (It went away without any deliberate
action on my part. My PC clock suddently started GAINING 15 minutes
an hour. It's almost certainly software related - among other things,
it's intermittant, and if I reboot, the time is correct when it comes
up - but I haven't a clue about how to track down what's causing it.
I can't identify a likely culprit in the Task Manager processes tab.
Maybe someone has encountered this or at least can suggest a
troubleshooting approach that might lead me to the cause.

Thanks,
Tim


On Feb 15 2007, 8:33 am, "tim" <spo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> XP SP2 on an eMachines AMD computer.
>
> Within the past 2 weeks my computer clock has gone nuts, gaining 4-5
> minutes per hour. Around the general timeframe involved I added a
> video card and disabled the onboard video and I upgraded from Office
> 2007 beta 2 to Office 2007 release version. I can think of no other
> changes. I run Trend Micro security, and have scanned with SpyBot and
> AdAware SE.
>
> Can anyone suggest an approach to troubleshooting this using available
> XP system utilities or, alternatively, consumer grade after market
> tools?
>
> Thanks,
> Tim

"tim" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:1a5731a3-d03d-4fc0-96a9-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Incredibly, almost a year after I posted the message below to this
> group, the problem has returned. (It went away without any deliberate
> action on my part. My PC clock suddently started GAINING 15 minutes
> an hour. It's almost certainly software related - among other things,
> it's intermittant, and if I reboot, the time is correct when it comes
> up - but I haven't a clue about how to track down what's causing it.
> I can't identify a likely culprit in the Task Manager processes tab.
> Maybe someone has encountered this or at least can suggest a
> troubleshooting approach that might lead me to the cause.
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
>
>
> On Feb 15 2007, 8:33 am, "tim" <spo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> XP SP2 on an eMachines AMD computer.
>>
>> Within the past 2 weeks my computer clock has gone nuts, gaining 4-5
>> minutes per hour. Around the general timeframe involved I added a
>> video card and disabled the onboard video and I upgraded from Office
>> 2007 beta 2 to Office 2007 release version. I can think of no other
>> changes. I run Trend Micro security, and have scanned with SpyBot and
>> AdAware SE.
>>
>> Can anyone suggest an approach to troubleshooting this using available
>> XP system utilities or, alternatively, consumer grade after market
>> tools?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tim
>

Does it happen in Safe Mode?

"tim" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Incredibly, almost a year after I posted the message below to this
> group, the problem has returned. (It went away without any deliberate
> action on my part. My PC clock suddently started GAINING 15 minutes
> an hour. It's almost certainly software related

Any Norton/Symantec software installed? May apply to most products:
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...rc=bar_sch_nam

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