Internal Clock Problems

[Guest]

I can use the update clock feature and it imediately starts to run fast. It
has run anywhere from 13 seconds fast in 1 hour to as much as 1 1/2 minutes
in an hour. It stays this way constantly. Also sometimes the media center
shuts down and stops recording a program before it's completion. It has done
this at least 25% of the time. I'm at a loss as to what to do. I have a 3
month old Dell XPS400 with WindowsXP media center edition. HELP

 

[Richard Urban MVP]

Windows XP, as loaded, automatically updates the system time every 7 days
from one of two (default) time servers. This update interval can be changed
as follows:

Go to Start/Run. Type in regedit (the registry editor), then press enter.
Using regedit, press control/F (search). Type in "specialpollinterval"
without the quotes. Press enter.

When search has found the first entry, double click on the highlighted name.
Change the "base" to decimal. You will see that the decimal value is 604800,
the number of seconds in 7 days.

Edit this decimal value to any value you desire, remembering that there are
86400 seconds in one day, 3600 seconds in one hour. Click O.K.

Press F3 to find the next entry. Do this for each instance of the decimal
value "specialpollinterval".

Exit regedit.

Now reboot your system for the change to take effect.

Cheers!!!"


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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

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