Clock wrong on startup

[Guest]

Every time when I start the computer the clock is wrong. It's several hours
behind. Today for example it's about 5 hours wrong. I usually synchronize it
with net manually but it's useless since next time it's wrong again.
Why?

 

[Guest]

sounds very much like your cmos battery is failing

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Merike.

You haven't told us where in the world you live. Your Time Zone is still
set to Pacific Standard Time in the USA, which is correct for Redmond,
Washington. That's what WinXP is set to when it leaves MS. If that is not
the correct zone for where you live, you need to change it. The easiest way
is to double-click the clock, then click the Time Zone tab and select from
the drop-down menu.

RC

 

[Ken Blake]

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Every time when I start the computer the clock is wrong. It's
several
hours behind. Today for example it's about 5 hours wrong. I
usually
synchronize it with net manually but it's useless since next
time
it's wrong again.

If your clock is losing time while powered off, almost certainly
the motherboard battery is failing and needs to be replaced. This
is normally a small coin-shaped battery and cost only a few
dollars.

Buy a new batter before removing the old one. When you remove the
old battery, you normally have a few minutes to replace it before
losing all your BIOS settings, but it's not wise to depend on
that. Write them all down before you remove the old one, so worst
case, you can reenter them manually.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Every time when I start the computer the clock is wrong. It's several hours
behind. Today for example it's about 5 hours wrong. I usually synchronize it
with net manually but it's useless since next time it's wrong again.
Why?

Probably the little battery on the motherboard that runs the clock when
power is off is dying. Get it replaced straight away (it also maintains
settings for the BIOS that are needed for the machine to work)

 

[Guest]

You haven't told us where in the world you live. Your Time Zone is still
set to Pacific Standard Time in the USA, which is correct for Redmond,
Washington. That's what WinXP is set to when it leaves MS. If that is not
the correct zone for where you live, you need to change it. The easiest way
is to double-click the clock, then click the Time Zone tab and select from
the drop-down menu.

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP

I live in Estonia and my time zone is set to gmt +2 which is correct.

If your clock is losing time while powered off, almost certainly
the motherboard battery is failing and needs to be replaced. This
is normally a small coin-shaped battery and cost only a few
dollars.

Duh, never dealt with hardware problems before. I suppose I contact people
who got me this comp once, they'll know more than me.

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Merike.

Whoops! I overlooked something and jumped to the wrong conclusion. :>{

The time string in the header for your latest message says:
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 05:01:02 -0800

But I overlooked that you are posting using:
X-Newsreader: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000

Which translates to the Web-based interface to the Microsoft Communities.
And messages posted that way are ALL time-stamped with Redmond's GMT -0800.

I apologize for suggesting that your time zone was set wrong.

RC

 

[Guest]

Every time when I start the computer the clock is wrong. It's several hours
behind. Today for example it's about 5 hours wrong. I usually synchronize it
with net manually but it's useless since next time it's wrong again.
Why?

every time i started up and connected to the internet the time would change.
after speaking to microsoft it was something in the start up menue that was
changing the clock. after further checks it was fond that a bug had got into
the start up menue(install microsoft spyware) and changed the clock.run
spyware to try to get rid of bug.

 

[Kelly]

Depends, it is either your CMOS battery or:

Go to Start/Run and type in: cmd
At the prompt, type in:

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

Added info: http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=36&eventno=1405
More info: http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/service/time-servers.html




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In memory of our dear friend, MVP Alex Nichol

All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com