System clock anomaly

[RobF]

Clock was 4 minutes slow this A.M. A few months ago, clock was more than
the limit set for corrrecting time by an atomic clock program (D4), 2
hours. Does this kind of thing just happen, oddly, unpredictably, signifying
nothing, or is it an omen? Asus based puter, less than 2 years old. Thanks
for suggestions,

 

[Twayne]

Sounds like it might be a good idea to replace
the
motherboard battery.

Agreed; date/time anamolies are usually a sign of
the battery teetering on the edge of not
working/working.
In the extreme, letting it go too long (say a
few weeks) can (not will), when the battery
finally gasps its last breath, cause BIOS settings
to become corrupt and the machine to not be able
to boot unless/until the battery is replaced & the
the BIOS settings redefaulted or reset manually.

HTH

Twayne

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Clock was 4 minutes slow this A.M. A few months ago, clock was more than
the limit set for corrrecting time by an atomic clock program (D4), 2
hours. Does this kind of thing just happen, oddly, unpredictably, signifying
nothing, or is it an omen? Asus based puter, less than 2 years old. Thanks
for suggestions,

Four minutes is more of an error than is common, but it's not
enormous. Two hours, on the other hand, is really a lot.

When you say "two hours," do you mean *exactly two hours, or
approximately two hours? If it's approximately two hours, I would
suspect that your motherboard battery is starting to fail. But if it
was exactly two hours, it's not the battery, but something else is
wrong.

 

[RobF]

|
| > Clock was 4 minutes slow this A.M. A few months ago, clock was more
than
| > the limit set for corrrecting time by an atomic clock program (D4), 2
| > hours. Does this kind of thing just happen, oddly, unpredictably,
signifying
| > nothing, or is it an omen? Asus based puter, less than 2 years old.
Thanks
| > for suggestions,
|
|
|
| Four minutes is more of an error than is common, but it's not
| enormous. Two hours, on the other hand, is really a lot.
|
| When you say "two hours," do you mean *exactly two hours, or
| approximately two hours? If it's approximately two hours, I would
| suspect that your motherboard battery is starting to fail. But if it
| was exactly two hours, it's not the battery, but something else is
| wrong.
|
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| Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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Max correction allowed to be made was set at 1 hour, so the correction made
when I overrode the setting was some odd number, I think well over 60 x 2
hours. So I guess it's high "time" to replace.
Thanks all for your inputs.