clock problem - advice?

[hart.plummer]

I had thought the clock in my Fujitsu Simens laptop was seeming to be
slow, but about a week after the warranty expired I thought of looking
at the 'clock hands' representation. The clock freezes momentarily
every fourth second and the every fifth second, then back ot every
fourth second and so on. I can lose fifteen minutes after an amount of
time. I've looked to see if a driver can be updated but apparently it
doesn' use a driver?
What could the problem be? Is it a fault with the clock chip
itself?
I have just installed some XP updates as well and now Internet
Explorer starts up automatically when I have switched on the computer.
How do I undo this? I thought of doing a system restore, but then the
updates will only load next time and I imagine the same change will
come about?
Thanks for any help.

 

[Guest]

-Do you have any antyspyware in you system?
-Antivirus?
-Have You try to set the time again. "right clic th time, go to set time,
Make susre if is eastern, central, or pacific"
-What update from windows cause the problem?

 

[Jason Tsang]

Try re-registering the Windows Time service.

1. Start->Run cmd.exe
2. net stop w32time
3. w32tm /unregister [ignore error message]
4. w32tm /unregister
5. w32tm /register
6. net start w32time

Let us know if that works. If it doesn't, it is likely that something else
is interfering with normal clock operations.

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[hart.plummer]

No, I tried the above procedure but it didn't help.
No, I don't have anything but the protection software that comes
with XP, but I have no other problems and imagine it's not a virus
problem; it seems a monir symptom really and the slowing has been like
it probably the whole year. Any other ideas?
Yes, I've tried resetting the time and sync with time.com etc.
Many thanks for your input.

 

[hart.plummer]

Minor, not monir!

 

[paulmd]

Minor, not monir!

How about replacing the CMOS battery? They're cheap.

 

[paulmd]

Minor, not monir!

Nevermind. Laptop. Pain in the butt to change THOSE batteries.