Windows Clock is fast!

[Stuttgart 911]

Every day or so, my clock seems to jump forward in time. This happens slowly, but it hasnt stopped. The battery is brand new, since I changed it when this problem started occuring. I re-sinc up with time.nist.gov when the time gets to be fast, but it goes fast again after a day. I usually notice it's fast when it is about 5 minutes fast, and then I re-sinc. What could be causing this problem?

I've got Windows Media Center Edition 2005.

[mairving]

Are you overclocking?

I did find this MS KB article that may help.

[Stuttgart 911]

Originally Posted by mairving Are you overclocking? I did find this MS KB article that may help.

I'm not overclocking, and that article is for Windows 2000.

[mairving]

Originally Posted by Stuttgart 911 I'm not overclocking, and that article is for Windows 2000.

It was a joke about overclocking.

The article is about W2K but sometimes I have found that it can be applicable to XP. Not too much info around on XP Media Edition.

What happens when you don't set the clock? Does it continue to be fast or does it remain around the 5 minutes fast mark?

[Litespeed]

I had that problem then I double clicked on the time and in date and time properties clicked on the "internet time" tab. I then checked the box to automatically synchronize time with an Internet time server. You can use any on the drop down tab and those work to keep you clock always accurate. -Matt

[kevinf]

isn't the defult time.windows.com

[Litespeed]

Originally Posted by kevinf isn't the defult time.windows.com

Yes, and the other server is time.nist.gov

both sync up to a server to keep your time correct. I use time.windows.com and my computer synchronized last night. It does not matter which one you use. They both do the same thing.

[ffreeloader]

Every day or so, my clock seems to jump forward in time. This happens slowly, but it hasnt stopped. The battery is brand new, since I changed it when this problem started occuring. I re-sinc up with time.nist.gov when the time gets to be fast, but it goes fast again after a day. I usually notice it's fast when it is about 5 minutes fast, and then I re-sinc. What could be causing this problem? I've got Windows Media Center Edition 2005.

That's a lot of time drift for one day.

Have you run a packet sniffer such as ethereal for a while and checked to see if you are actually getting ntp packets from your time server? I'm wondering if you have a firewall that's blocking them. Have you checked your Event Logs to see if you are getting errors associated with the time service? Also, have you tried using "net time" from a command prompt and setting the time server that way?

Have you tried other time servers? There are quite a few public time servers that don't require notification. Here is a link to the web home for ntp time servers.

[Litespeed]

I am an idiot. I am sorry Stuttgart 911 I did not read the post correctly. I feel very dumb. Sorry for not being of any help. I am going back into hiding.

[stylin19]

I haven't seen the speed up yet, but some say that running Azureus speeds up the clock.

Course, it could be any Bit Torrent client...

Good Luck

[Stuttgart 911]

Originally Posted by stylin19 I haven't seen the speed up yet, but some say that running Azureus speeds up the clock. Course, it could be any Bit Torrent client... Good Luck

I do run BitComet a lot, but it never happened with old PCs/formats.

Normally, in a 24 hour period, it gets to be 6 mins fast, then it auto sychronizes. It is 6 mins fast right now, and it will synchro in 11 mins. I turned of the auto synchro and see what happens and I will report back.

I don't even know wht packet sniffers and ethereal are, ffreeloader, but it syncs up fine, and get's the correct time every time, it just gets off in between synchros.

I'm worried that it is a hardware problem. This motherboard is a repaired mobo from ASUS. I hope that's not what was wrong with it, i do not want to go through the RMA process with ASUS again.

[Zephiris]

I have a similar Xpress 200-based Athlon 64 (3500+), I get a clock drift of about +2 hours per day. Tech support was, of course, completely ignorant, didn't speak English. I was wondering if anyone figured this problem out, or knew of any way to fix it. It appears to be regardless of what Power Management style is enabled.

[ktkendall]

I once had that problem and it turned out to be a game we were playing on the PC.

[Zephiris]

I don't see why a game would affect it, though largely I haven't been playing any, either. I've mostly been trying to get downloads done (on dialup, joy), talking with people, hence when the clock jumps forwards by two hours all at once, it utterly causes software to freak out and have big problems.

[ktkendall]

It was our first PC and we went through a service call, replaced the battery and didn't fix it and took quite a while to figure it out, and I still don't understand how that game was able to do that but it did, and that is the reason I chimed in here just to point out that it is a possibility that a program that you use could be the culprit. Have you checked to see if the BIOS time stays correct???