clock

[bama]

can someone please tell me why my clock won't keep the
correct time,i have the correct time zone selected and i
am running xp pro
plz help

[Mark Godfrey]

More than likely the CMOS battery is going out. It is the small round watch
like looking battery on your motherboard. Turn off computer, unplug power
cord, then take the battery out and go to Radio Shack and get a new one and
then reverse procedure to install it. Hope that helps.
"bama" > wrote in message
...
> can someone please tell me why my clock won't keep the
> correct time,i have the correct time zone selected and i
> am running xp pro
> plz help

[hutch]

you might also try these - ie
1/
if it's a dell - it's a known and reported
prob on these groups/lists and get fix at -

http://support.dell.com/us/en/filelib/download/download.as
p?
fileid=R40111&format=46537&sid=DIM_PNT_P4_8200&lang=EN&l
ib=0&os=WW1&searchtype=filter&devid
note
need to 'copy/paste' when broken ref'd link
or
2/
Start->Run cmd.exe
net stop w32time
w32tm /unregister [ignore error message]
w32tm /unregister
w32tm /register
net start w32time
note
fr terri stratton post

hth
God Bless
hutch


>-----Original Message-----
>More than likely the CMOS battery is going out. It is
the small round watch
>like looking battery on your motherboard. Turn off
computer, unplug power
>cord, then take the battery out and go to Radio Shack
and get a new one and
>then reverse procedure to install it. Hope that helps.
>"bama" > wrote in message
...
>> can someone please tell me why my clock won't keep the
>> correct time,i have the correct time zone selected and
i
>> am running xp pro
>> plz help
>
>
>.
>