Re: Clock

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From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 03/21/04 

Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 18:16:58 +0000

Gordon wrote:

>
>If it slows down, your CMOS battery may need replacing.
>

For what feels like the millionth time, but is probably only the
thousandth: Any trouble with the clock while windows is running is
certainly *NOT* the battery.

a Possibility - though not running at all sounds very odd; is a problem
seems to happen quite often with Dell machines. Usually though a steady
rate of loss like 10 minutes in an hour. It appears to result from a
conflict with the BIOS over the interval between 'timer interrupts'.
Windows maintains the clock by counting these, so if the interval is not
the expected one, the rate is grossly out in this manner.

Try these steps:

1. Start->Run cmd.exe
2. net stop w32time
3. w32tm.exe /unregister
4. w32tm.exe /register
5. net start w32time

(note spellings w32tm and w32time in different commands) 

-- 
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K.  Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)

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