time lost

[shawno]

I have a computer here that is losing its time.... Windows clock will loose 15 minutes to several hours per day. If I reboot, the time is correct again (for a while). I assume that means that the battery/cmos time is good, but the system clock is loosing time.why? How can I fix it?

[TheMank]

I have heard that this is caused by a cmos battery that is running low. I don't know that this is true, I notice that the clock slows down when I run processor hogging apps. I think that if you double-click on the clock, then press ok when the dialog box comes up, it will refresh the clock.

[TheMank]

oh yeah
also, if I leave the clock alone, it will eventually catch up

[Student^2]

When you go to a DOS prompt and type time is it correct?

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Time is a great teacher,
but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

[shawno]

The computer is at a clients. I will have them try it and post the result.
thanks

[c4a]

your rtc is not functioning properly.
replace the board.

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Computer 4 All

[jhutto]

Let me guess it is a IBM aptiva?
I have seen that a lot on them. If it is, nothing you can do.

Windows has a known clock issue, but it is not that bad.

[shawno]

No, it's a clone that they built.
Amptron 9900 mb, AMD k6.2 400, Win98 SR1,
64m RAM.