Clock gains a few minutes everyday on Win2000

[Bruce Kenney]

I have a about 15 Win2000 PC's gaining a few
minutes throughout the course of the day.
The other 500 PC's work just fine.

Does anyone know what might be causing this.

I have a "timeserver" setup, it doesn't seem to help.

I know I could run "net time" or "w32tm" in a batch,
but I don't want to do that.

Thanks a lot,
Bruce

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Before you look for the actual cause of your problem,
you must determine if your motherboard clock is fast
or if Win2000 is the culprit.

- Turn your machine on, then get into the BIOS. Keep it
there for 8 hours. If the machine gains time then it's
your motherboard. If not then move to the next step.

- Boot into Win2000, set the time, disconnect the machine
from your network and from the Internet. Wait for 8 hours.
If the machine gains time then Win2000 is doing something
strange. If not then you're allowing some external time
source to set the time on your machine.

 

[brucek]

Thanks You, Pegasus.

I'll have to give this a try.
It sounds very reasonable to me.

Thanks Again,
bruce
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