Clock runs too fast

[Thomas Neumayer]

Hi, for about a week i'm facing a quite weird problem: my clock in the tray ticks too fast.
i couldn't find out any relations on this to happen. sometimes it runs exactly for 2-3 hours, then goes +30min in two hours but never too slow.
I'm syncing my clock every half an hour with a timeserver (via NET TIME-program so no 3rd party tools that affect the clock are installed).

What could be reasons for my clock to tick too fast.

any help appreciated


Bye, Thomas

 

[Eric Renken]

It could be related to the battery on your motherboard. The battery could
be getting low.

 

[Thomas Neumayer]

It could be related to the battery on your motherboard. The battery could
be getting low.

I'll check out your hint, thanks.
But shouldn't the clock slow down in that case?

 

[Ken Blake]

In

It could be related to the battery on your motherboard. The
battery
could be getting low.

No, that's not possible. That would cause the clock to *lose*
time. Moreover, if it loses time while powered off, the problem
*is* very likely the battery. But if it's while running, it can
*not* be the battery, because the battery isn't used while the
computer is running.

Thomas, for clock problems while while running, try this:


Open a command prompt window (Start | Run | cmd) and enter the
following commands:



net stop w32time

w32tm /unregister

w32tm /register

net start w32time

 

[Thomas Neumayer]

In


No, that's not possible. That would cause the clock to *lose*
time. Moreover, if it loses time while powered off, the problem
*is* very likely the battery. But if it's while running, it can
*not* be the battery, because the battery isn't used while the
computer is running.

Thomas, for clock problems while while running, try this:


Open a command prompt window (Start | Run | cmd) and enter the
following commands:



net stop w32time

w32tm /unregister

w32tm /register

net start w32time

okay i did that steps, but got an error at the unregister line

w32tm /unregister

Folgender Fehler ist aufgetreten: Zugriff verweigert (0x80070005)

In english it is sth like "an error occurred: Access denied (0x..)"

i registered the w32tm anyway and started the service again..that all didnt throw an error.
hope i can relay on my clock again


thanks, Thomas

 

[Alex Nichol]

Hi, for about a week i'm facing a quite weird problem: my clock in the tray ticks too fast.
i couldn't find out any relations on this to happen. sometimes it runs exactly for 2-3 hours, then goes +30min in two hours but never too slow.
I'm syncing my clock every half an hour with a timeserver (via NET TIME-program so no 3rd party tools that affect the clock are installed).

What could be reasons for my clock to tick too fast.

This problem seems to happen quite often, especially with Dell
machines. Usually a steady rate of loss/gain like 10 minutes in an
hour. It appears to result from a conflict with the BIOS over the
interval between 'timer interrupts'. Windows maintains the clock by
counting these, so if the interval is not the expected one, the rate is
grossly out in this manner.

Try these steps:

1. Start->Run cmd.exe
2. net stop w32time
3. w32tm.exe /unregister
4. w32tm.exe /register
5. net start w32time

(note spellings w32tm and w32time in different commands)

I would then put the interval for the Windows Internet Time sync to say
daily, presuming you leave the machine on. It will then fine tune its
idea of the interval between interrupts so that the clock runs quite
well even with infrequent syncs

 

[Alex Nichol]

It could be related to the battery on your motherboard. The battery could
be getting low.

--
Eric Renken
Microsoft Associate Expert.
Expert Zone
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/

Not if it is an irregularity as windows is running. Windows reads that
clock at boot and does not access it again. Battery failure is
indicated by the time being wildly wrong immediately at boot