Problem with Vista - its in turbo mode

hamesy · 17 Dec 2009 at 20:26

Not sure whats doing on with my system. Was using just an hour ago and it was perfectly fine, switched it back on 20 minutes ago and now its acting up.

The clock is updating every second for instance every second that goes by it goes up by one minute. Also the OS is loading extremely quick and loading programs that would normally take a few seconds is done within less than half a second. The only way I can describe it is like its in a turbo mode and its really doing my head in.

Help?

Macky · 17 Dec 2009 at 20:50

WTF? Lol. Try a virus/malware scan, now!

asim18 · 17 Dec 2009 at 21:24

WTF indeed.

Maybe it's out of sync with the space time continuum.

Rainmaker · 17 Dec 2009 at 22:27

The clock thing I could understand, but programs suddenly loading super quick? If your heatsink has smoke coming off it, maybe reinstall your overclock at a lower FSB.

Seriously though, I know I've come across the clock issue before, waaaay back when. Damned if I can remember what it was now though.

Hopefully someone can help, and I'll post back if I remember.

Also:

Macky said:
WTF? Lol. Try a virus/malware scan, now!

hohum · 17 Dec 2009 at 22:45

Are you overclocking anything? Might be a hardware-related timing issue.

hamesy · 18 Dec 2009 at 09:39

Switched it on this morning to do a virus scan and now its ok :confused:

I know this is going to be completely daft but last night I had my windows open and it was extremely cold in my room. Can the cold cause vista to behave like this?

gillywibble · 18 Dec 2009 at 09:44

hamesy said:
I know this is going to be completely daft but last night I had my windows open and it was extremely cold in my room. Can the cold cause vista to behave like this?

Three guesses

theheyes · 18 Dec 2009 at 14:11

I'm sick of people bad mouthing Vista, ever considered that it was you experiencing time more slowly than everything else?