Internet Time

[Lee Masson]

All,
I have had problems with the system clock on my pc.
I have had an engineer look at it, and has said the BIOS/battery are all
fine, It even stayed ok for a while.

The clock goes at least 4hrs slow, and when I do a synchronize with
time.windows.com all i get is an error occuring.

Is there a problem with the sync on time.windows.com, or could my ZA
firewall be blocking it?

 

[You Know Who ~]

Its my guess that the battery on your motherboard is not doing fine.

 

[witan]

All,
I have had problems with the system clock on my pc.
I have had an engineer look at it, and has said the BIOS/battery are all
fine, It even stayed ok for a while.

The clock goes at least 4hrs slow, and when I do a synchronize with
time.windows.com all i get is an error occuring.

Is there a problem with the sync on time.windows.com, or could my ZA
firewall be blocking it?

Try using nistime-32bit.exe (download from ftp://time.nist.gov/pub/daytime/nistime-32bit.exe
) for manually synchronising the time. Also, in the "Automatically
synchronise with an Internet time server" > "Server" box in Windows-
XP, type time-a.nist.gov . This works much better than time.windows.com

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

I have had problems with the system clock on my pc.

Is the PC plugged into a power source at all times?

If so, then it's not the CMOS battery on your mainboard, despite all
those replies that say that's your problem.

It's something else... and I've no idea what.