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From: shank on 25 May 2010 20:07 Does WinXp sync it's clock to some outside resource if it's available? I downloaded an atomic sync software. Found my clock to be about 5 minutes off. Synced it and scheduled it to be synced every hour. It's now about 15 minutes later and it's off by 5 minutes again. Historically, evidently, it's always 5 minutes off which makes me believe it is syncing with something I'm not aware of. How do I troubleshoot this? thanks
From: Bob on 25 May 2010 21:23 The system clock is losing time or not keeping time accurately. http://www.pcguide.com/ts/x/comp/mbsys/cmosLosingTime-c.html "shank" <shank(a)tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message news:OSiYthG$KHA.3880(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > Does WinXp sync it's clock to some outside resource if it's available? > > I downloaded an atomic sync software. Found my clock to be about 5 minutes > off. Synced it and scheduled it to be synced every hour. It's now about 15 > minutes later and it's off by 5 minutes again. Historically, evidently, > it's always 5 minutes off which makes me believe it is syncing with > something I'm not aware of. How do I troubleshoot this? > > thanks >
From: John Wunderlich on 25 May 2010 22:27 "shank" <shank(a)tampabay.rr.com> wrote in news:OSiYthG$KHA.3880(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl: > Does WinXp sync it's clock to some outside resource if it's > available? > > I downloaded an atomic sync software. Found my clock to be about 5 > minutes off. Synced it and scheduled it to be synced every hour. > It's now about 15 minutes later and it's off by 5 minutes again. > Historically, evidently, it's always 5 minutes off which makes me > believe it is syncing with something I'm not aware of. How do I > troubleshoot this? > > thanks > > "How to configure an authoritative time server in Windows XP" <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314054> Skip about 1/3 down the page to the paragraph titled: "Configuring the Windows Time service to use an external time source" HTH, John
From: Ken Blake, MVP on 25 May 2010 23:17 On Tue, 25 May 2010 22:57:57 -0400, "Volunteer J" <oobie(a)doobie.zyx> wrote: > shank wrote: > > Does WinXp sync it's clock to some outside resource if it's available? > > > > I downloaded an atomic sync software. Found my clock to be about 5 > > minutes off. Synced it and scheduled it to be synced every hour. It's > > now about 15 minutes later and it's off by 5 minutes again. > > Historically, evidently, it's always 5 minutes off which makes me > > believe it is syncing with something I'm not aware of. How do I > > troubleshoot this? > > thanks > ===================================== > Maybe your CMOS battery needs to be replaced: No, almost certainly not, for two reasons: 1. It goes off by only five minutes. 2. Before anyone whose clock is running slow rushes out to buy a new battery, he should first take note of whether he is losing time while the computer is running or while it's powered off. If it's while powered off, the problem *is* very likely the battery. But if it's while running (which is apparently his case), it can *not* be the battery, because the battery isn't used while the computer is running. If the clock loses time while running, try this: Open a command prompt window (Start | Run | cmd) and enter the following commands: net stop w32time w32tm /unregister [ignore error message] w32tm /unregister w32tm /register net start w32time -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003 Please Reply to the Newsgroup
From: shank on 26 May 2010 09:24
"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake(a)this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message news:sh4pv5d2gkqartphta7nmq52311beksat7(a)4ax.com... > On Tue, 25 May 2010 22:57:57 -0400, "Volunteer J" <oobie(a)doobie.zyx> > wrote: > >> shank wrote: >> > Does WinXp sync it's clock to some outside resource if it's available? >> > >> > I downloaded an atomic sync software. Found my clock to be about 5 >> > minutes off. Synced it and scheduled it to be synced every hour. It's >> > now about 15 minutes later and it's off by 5 minutes again. >> > Historically, evidently, it's always 5 minutes off which makes me >> > believe it is syncing with something I'm not aware of. How do I >> > troubleshoot this? >> > thanks >> ===================================== >> Maybe your CMOS battery needs to be replaced: > > > No, almost certainly not, for two reasons: > > 1. It goes off by only five minutes. > > 2. Before anyone whose clock is running slow rushes out to buy a new > battery, he should first take note of whether he is losing time while > the computer is running or while it's powered off. If it's while > powered off, the problem *is* very likely the battery. But if it's > while running (which is apparently his case), it can *not* be the > battery, because the battery isn't used while the computer is running. > > If the clock loses time while running, try this: > > Open a command prompt window (Start | Run | cmd) and enter the > following commands: > > net stop w32time > w32tm /unregister [ignore error message] > w32tm /unregister > w32tm /register > net start w32time > > > > > -- > Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003 > Please Reply to the Newsgroup I did the above because it appeared to be the most plausible and set it to Worldtimezone. But some 10 hours later, it reverted back to 6 minutes slow. What I thought was 5 minutes above is actually 6 minutes. And it will stay 6 minutes off no matter what I do. How can I tell if there's some small app that's dinging the wrong time somewhere and changing my clock? Add/Remove programs doesn't show anything I'm not aware of. thanks! |