Answer me this

[ritaxis]

You know how your Windows machine generally has a little time thing in the far corner of the toolbar?

Why has mine suddenly started gaining large chunks of time all the time, causing me to have to manually resynchronize it? And why does it take two tries to synchronize it?

The first time I noticed it was a few days ago when it was twenty-some minutes fast. This time it was eight minutes fast.

What is this? How do I stop it?

Comments

[ellarien]

In the bad old days, clock problems were usually a sign that an internal battery needed replacing, but I haven't seen that for a long time. (Windows XP gets its synch off the internet, I think.)

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

That's what's so puzzling. I have Xp pro, and it claims to be automatically updating on some regular basis, but it clearly isn't. I do not have any weird firewalls: just Norton Internet Security, which ought to allow this. And I never had any trouble till recently.

Clock synch

[(Anonymous)]

XP Pro should be updating once a week, if you're not on a network. I'm assuming you keep your machine hooked into the 'net at all times. If you don't, the synch won't happen if you're not connected when the synch is scheduled to happen.

I told his nibs about your problem and he says if you are indeed getting synch'd once a week, it sounds an awful lot like the battery on the clock chip is flaking out and not holding the timing together enough to keep you in synch until the next time XP synchs you up. Granted those batteries aren't supposed to wear out for years, but you might have a lemon.

Loads of help, eh?

/Towse