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Guest
Before I describe the problem, let me say that I have done a scan of the
machine with Spybot, AdAware and VET Antivirus. I'm running Windows XP Home
SP2
The Windows clock will GAIN exactly 24 hours at random - the machine is on
24/7 via a ZyXel 660H DSL router. My time zone is correctly set (GMT +8h no
daylight saving), and I have tried enabling and disabling the time server
synchronisation option in the Time & Date properties without success. I have
manually synchronised the clock using a free program called WebTime that
connects to atomic clock time servers, but this makes no difference. When the
Windows clock is wrong, the wrong time is also displayed in the BIOS
settings. The router also synchronises to a time server (a different one),
but the router time is never incorrect. Interestingly, the clock told me that
today was Thursday instead of Wednesday, and when I chose 'update now' to
synchronise with time.windows.com in the time/date properties, it says that
time has successfully been synchronised with time.windows.com , yet STILL
gave me Thursday 9th as the synchronised date. The computer is only six
months old, so I don't immediately suspect the clock battery - particularly
as the clock leaps forward exactly one day and doesn't accrue several minutes
over a period of time.
For those who know what these things mean, I have included some additional
info below. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
SNTP value is: time.windows.com,0x1
Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : xxx
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast
Eth
ernet NIC
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : xxx
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.33
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, 9 March 2006 8:26:04 PM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Sunday, 12 March 2006 8:26:04 PM
machine with Spybot, AdAware and VET Antivirus. I'm running Windows XP Home
SP2
The Windows clock will GAIN exactly 24 hours at random - the machine is on
24/7 via a ZyXel 660H DSL router. My time zone is correctly set (GMT +8h no
daylight saving), and I have tried enabling and disabling the time server
synchronisation option in the Time & Date properties without success. I have
manually synchronised the clock using a free program called WebTime that
connects to atomic clock time servers, but this makes no difference. When the
Windows clock is wrong, the wrong time is also displayed in the BIOS
settings. The router also synchronises to a time server (a different one),
but the router time is never incorrect. Interestingly, the clock told me that
today was Thursday instead of Wednesday, and when I chose 'update now' to
synchronise with time.windows.com in the time/date properties, it says that
time has successfully been synchronised with time.windows.com , yet STILL
gave me Thursday 9th as the synchronised date. The computer is only six
months old, so I don't immediately suspect the clock battery - particularly
as the clock leaps forward exactly one day and doesn't accrue several minutes
over a period of time.
For those who know what these things mean, I have included some additional
info below. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
SNTP value is: time.windows.com,0x1
Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : xxx
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast
Eth
ernet NIC
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : xxx
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.33
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, 9 March 2006 8:26:04 PM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Sunday, 12 March 2006 8:26:04 PM