Lossing time...

mdixson

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Okay a while back i noticed that my PC was losing time; so naturally I popped out the current mobo battery and put a fresh one in. Yet still it continues to lose time; fairly rapidly...

This seems to have only become an issue around the time I upgraded to Vista Home Prem. 32bit. I'm on a Nvidia Nforce4 Asus mobo and have a 4400+ with 2gb ram and an x1800xt.

Please help me as it is driving me insane!
 
I believe this is a known Vista issue. Not sure how the OS itself can slow down the clock, but I, and many others have found the the Vista clock tends to lag by about ten minutes a day, although this can vary. Try doing a google search for 'slow Vista clock' and you'll see what I mean. I personally have only noticed this after upgrading from XP to Vista Ultimate x64. I guess all we can do is wait for MS to sort it out. :rolleyes:
 
You could make a script to sync the clock over 15 mins or so to prevent it going too far off. It's a bodge but it'll work.

Burnsy
 
Have just read that it's related to the new 'Hybrid Sleep' function in Vista. Maybe try turning this off?
 
Burnsy2023 said:
You could make a script to sync the clock over 15 mins or so to prevent it going too far off. It's a bodge but it'll work.

Burnsy
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Can you poke a few pointers on how to do that my way please? My sister's laptop keeps losing the time too. :o
 
in xp (I assume it's the same in Vista)
Code: 
net time /setsntp:0.uk.pool.ntp.org,1.uk.pool.ntp.org
net stop w32time && net start w32time

The w32time service is an sntp client which should automatically keep your clock in time.

If that doesn't work, schedule a batch file for every whenever.

Code: 
net stop w32time && net start w32time

which will force the client to check the ntp server more often - but this shouldn't be needed.

p.s. you'll need a constant interweb connection for this to work.
 
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