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175813 2003-09-16 20:11:00 Every 4 or so days i will put the clock in the bottom right-hand corner to to the correct time, but then in 4 or so days later it will become around about 15 minutes slower..what causes this and what needs updating..(CMOS?) MrBeef (342)
175814 2003-09-16 20:24:00 Hi ya - I had the same problem (wind XP home) but mine was slowing daily until I got service pack 1

regards Bug :)
Ladybug (3129)
175815 2003-09-16 20:38:00 Usually the cause of this is the CMOS battery running down. Even though they only supply a minute current to the cmos chips they do eventually expire.
I suppose a software bug could also have funny effects too.
Terry Porritt (14)
175816 2003-09-17 05:32:00 Not necessarily "bugs"; just rottten programming can do it. :D The OS's time relies on the CPU having time to deal with an interrupt which happens 18.2 times a second. If it misses some of these interrupts, the time counter doesn't get increased, so the time gets "slower".

The usual cause is a low battery which causes the crystal oscillator to slow down. Of course there are crsytals which are high or low in frequency right from new. Some AT boards had a trimmer capacitor so you could adjust the clock to be exacly right. I don't think they do that now. :D
Graham L (2)
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