Real Time Clock Runs Fast

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jim evans

I installed a new motherboard about a month ago. I began
noticing almost immediately the real time clock runs fast. It gains
about a minute every two days, so in a month it's gained about 15
minutes.

Anybody else had this problem?

jim
 
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Alex Nichol

jim said:
I installed a new motherboard about a month ago. I began
noticing almost immediately the real time clock runs fast. It gains
about a minute every two days, so in a month it's gained about 15
minutes.

Anybody else had this problem?

That amount is likely to be no more than the oscillator used to run the
system bus being a bit out - they are not calibrated as time pieces. If
you use XP Internet time sync (in Control Panel - Date and Time), and do
it daily for a few days, it should adjust the system's interpretation of
the time between the clock interrupts to give you a reasonably accurate
clock
 
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Jason Tsang

Try this

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



Information about the computer's processor clock is stored in the registry.
The defect is that windows should detect that the processor is different and
should refresh the registry entry. The steps above force that to happen.
 
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jim evans

Try this

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

Information about the computer's processor clock is stored in the registry.
The defect is that windows should detect that the processor is different and
should refresh the registry entry. The steps above force that to happen.

Thanks a lot for the reply, but every command gave an error.

net stop w32time gave this error:

System 1060 error
The specified service does not exist as an installed service

The others had various errors such as:

w32 not a recognized internal or external command . . .

The service name is invalid

etc.

jim
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