Clock / XP OS

[Guest]

The computer clock suddenly decided to go slow.
I took my computer to lacal Best Buy to check for sound card. I unplugged
the machine and took it to the store and I was told at the store that my hard
drive was not working. The machine had no problem prior to unplugging the
machine.
This machine is locally built. I took the machine back to the person who
built it and he found out the C-drive was disabled.
After correcting that I came back home and then I found the date and time is
at May 2005.
I had reset the closck using time.windows.com. Still the clock is going
slow. Now I can not connect to time.windows or nist for update.
The motherboard is about year old. My understanding is this could happend if
the battery dies. This is the first experience of dying battery since the
days of Model 3. I guess this could happen. Is this what is happening or
something else?

 

[Shenan Stanley]

The computer clock suddenly decided to go slow.
I took my computer to lacal Best Buy to check for sound card. I
unplugged the machine and took it to the store and I was told at
the store that my hard drive was not working. The machine had no
problem prior to unplugging the machine.
This machine is locally built. I took the machine back to the
person who built it and he found out the C-drive was disabled.
After correcting that I came back home and then I found the date
and time is at May 2005.
I had reset the closck using time.windows.com. Still the clock is
going slow. Now I can not connect to time.windows or nist for
update.
The motherboard is about year old. My understanding is this could
happend if the battery dies. This is the first experience of dying
battery since the days of Model 3. I guess this could happen. Is
this what is happening or something else?

Replace the battery on the motherboard for the $2 or less it should cost
(Wal~Mart, Radio Shack, etc) and see if that fixes it. ;-)

 

[Guest]

Thanks; I will try. Is it just a concidence?

Replace the battery on the motherboard for the $2 or less it should cost
(Wal~Mart, Radio Shack, etc) and see if that fixes it. ;-)

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

The computer clock suddenly decided to go slow.
I took my computer to lacal Best Buy to check for sound card. I unplugged
the machine and took it to the store and I was told at the store that my hard
drive was not working. The machine had no problem prior to unplugging the
machine.

Best Buy, or any similar national big box chain, is among the *worst*
places to take a computer for any kind of service or help with it.
Most of these places choose the people they hire based on their
willingness to accept something close to minimum wage, not based on
their skills. If these people knew anything, almost certainly they
could get a better job.

If you need service on your computer, you will almost always do better
with a small independent local company.

This machine is locally built. I took the machine back to the person who
built it and he found out the C-drive was disabled.
After correcting that I came back home and then I found the date and time is
at May 2005.
I had reset the closck using time.windows.com. Still the clock is going
slow. Now I can not connect to time.windows or nist for update.
The motherboard is about year old. My understanding is this could happend if
the battery dies. This is the first experience of dying battery since the
days of Model 3. I guess this could happen. Is this what is happening or
something else?

First take note of whether you are losing time while the computer is
running or while it's powered off. If it's while powered off, the
problem *is* very likely the battery. But if it's while running, it
can *not* be the battery, because the battery isn't used while the
computer is running.

 

[HeyBub]

Thanks; I will try. Is it just a concidence?

No. The battery is not used unless you turn off the computer. So probably
what happened was:

1. Battery dies.
2. Time passes and you unplug computer to take to shop.
3. BIOS reverts to original manufacturer's state (i.e., no hard drive, etc.)
4. ???

 

[Lil' Dave]

The computer clock suddenly decided to go slow.
I took my computer to lacal Best Buy to check for sound card. I unplugged
the machine and took it to the store and I was told at the store that my
hard
drive was not working. The machine had no problem prior to unplugging the
machine.

You probably never turned it off before. Standby or hibernate is not off,
despite XP's selections under turn computer off.

This machine is locally built. I took the machine back to the person who
built it and he found out the C-drive was disabled.

Uhh, the hard drive where your windows partition (c is installed was not
enabled. Windows calls partitions drives. The bios refers to the physical
hard drive, not a partition.

After correcting that I came back home and then I found the date and time
is
at May 2005.
I had reset the closck using time.windows.com. Still the clock is going
slow. Now I can not connect to time.windows or nist for update.

Me smells something amiss. If you took the PC home, and the cmos battery
was the cause of losing enabling the hard drive for XP's boot partition,
should have been the same when you got home as well.

The motherboard is about year old. My understanding is this could happend
if
the battery dies. This is the first experience of dying battery since the
days of Model 3. I guess this could happen. Is this what is happening or
something else?

Don't know, you may not be relaying enough information based on not having
to reenable the hard drive again in the bios when you got home. Or, you
conveniently left that out for others to ponder aimlessly.
Dave