slow clock

Can anyone tell me why clock runs slow despite synchronising ?
Thank for any help.

avalonx formulated on woensdag :
> Can anyone tell me why clock runs slow despite synchronising ?
> Thank for any help.

Could be the button battery on your mainboard running out.
Usually fairly easy to replace.

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On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:15:31 +0100, "avalonx"
<sammy26@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>Can anyone tell me why clock runs slow despite synchronising ?
>Thank for any help.

Same here. Brand new (few month old MB) and the system clock loses 3
minutes a month no matter what I do.

I believe that there is a time clock you can connect to that works out the
error between successive synchronizations and applies a continuous
correction to the clock so that it becomes accurate. Only trouble is that I
can't remember its name. I think one had to install it as a server? Anyway a
Google search might find it. It claimed (if memory serves) to be the most
accurate way to keep all the PCs on a network in sync in circumstances where
small time differences could do damage.

Ah - I have it:
http://www.meinberg.de/english/sw/ntp.htm

Another thing to do is to shorten the time interval for synchronization from
the weekly default (every 604800 seconds) to daily (86400 seconds)

to do this go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\W32Time\TimeProviders\NtpClient\SpecialPollInte rval\

and change it from 604800 to (decimal) 86400 seconds.

see for example at the foot of:

http://www.worldtimeserver.com/atomic-clock/

You could even resync hourly!
Doug


"Adam Albright" <AA@ABC.net> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:15:31 +0100, "avalonx"
> <sammy26@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>Can anyone tell me why clock runs slow despite synchronising ?
>>Thank for any help.
>
> Same here. Brand new (few month old MB) and the system clock loses 3
> minutes a month no matter what I do.
>
>