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| 22730 | 2001-10-27 02:53:00 | When my puter clock recently started to lose time I recognised the need to change the battery. Normally I leave my computer on constantly and since changing the batter I have noticed that whilst on it still and invariably loses time. When I turn the puter off however leave it off for some time and then reboot, the time reverts to the actual time i.e there is no apparent loss of time. Has anyone any idea of what is happening and whether there is a fix for this problem? Thanks |
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| 22731 | 2001-10-27 04:03:00 | ...here's an article which might answer some of your questions: www.smartcomputing.com 6l11%2F56l11%2Easp Something else to think about - do you run McAFEE Antivirus software (?). I have been following a thread on another forum where the problem of that software disrupting the time is being discussed. A number of users have discovered that by disabling McAFEE their time problems have been resolved. Food for thought. Cheers !!! e_ |
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| 22732 | 2001-10-27 04:51:00 | Thanks e _ The article proved enlightening and very interesting. I run Norton's Antivirus but as an experiment I will turn it off to see if it cures the problem. If it does then I will know otherwise I will put up with it :)) Thanks again |
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| 22733 | 2001-10-29 05:03:00 | The clock on the motherboard which is supplied by the battery runs all the time. Windows looks at that only at boot time. From then on, the Windows clock is a piece of software which is clocked by the notorious 18.2 ticks/sec interrupt. So losing time while running Windows means that there is software which is causing some of these ticks to be missed. This will be something which disables interrupts for more than the time between ticks. So you might have replaced your battery for no reason. The hardware clock is dependent on the accuracy of the 32768Hz crystal. The Windows clock depends on getting EVERY tick of the interrupt. | Guest (0) | ||
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