taskbar date

Can someone please help me for once deal with this problem?
I have posted here several times and all the suggestions are nowhere close.
Somehow, someway the date on my taskbar changes. Today it decided to jump
two days. Most of the time it's one day.
What is going on?????????? HELP!!!!!!!!!!

"AIANDAS" wrote in message
...
Can someone please help me for once deal with this problem?
I have posted here several times and all the suggestions are nowhere
close.
Somehow, someway the date on my taskbar changes. Today it decided to
jump two days. Most of the time it's one day.
What is going on?????????? HELP!!!!!!!!!!


Run msconfig.exe to disable all startup programs, reboot, and then test.

Disable the Windows Time service (run services.msc) to see if the time
changes again as you mention. If not then you might be connecting to a
time server to sync you time and the time server is screwed up.

Are you on a domain or in a workgroup?

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It could be the problem with the battery. it might tequire for you to change
the Battery in the motherboard, This could because the battery does not have
to store the date settings

Reply me if this works

"AIANDAS" wrote:

Can someone please help me for once deal with this problem?
I have posted here several times and all the suggestions are nowhere close.
Somehow, someway the date on my taskbar changes. Today it decided to jump
two days. Most of the time it's one day.
What is going on?????????? HELP!!!!!!!!!!

I am in a standalone PC............. I have just added a bunch of new time
servers and see what happens. So then the glitch is coming from the time
server I had originally fixed my date?
"Vanguard" wrote in message
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"AIANDAS" wrote in message
...
Can someone please help me for once deal with this problem?
I have posted here several times and all the suggestions are nowhere
close.
Somehow, someway the date on my taskbar changes. Today it decided to jump
two days. Most of the time it's one day.
What is going on?????????? HELP!!!!!!!!!!


Run msconfig.exe to disable all startup programs, reboot, and then test.

Disable the Windows Time service (run services.msc) to see if the time
changes again as you mention. If not then you might be connecting to a
time server to sync you time and the time server is screwed up.

Are you on a domain or in a workgroup?

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It's not a laptop
"Diva" wrote in message
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It could be the problem with the battery. it might tequire for you to
change
the Battery in the motherboard, This could because the battery does not
have
to store the date settings

Reply me if this works

"AIANDAS" wrote:

Can someone please help me for once deal with this problem?
I have posted here several times and all the suggestions are nowhere
close.
Somehow, someway the date on my taskbar changes. Today it decided to jump
two days. Most of the time it's one day.
What is going on?????????? HELP!!!!!!!!!!

Diva is not talking about the kind of clunky battery that powers a loptop.

All motherboards have a battery (mine is about the size and shape of nickel
or quarter) for maintaining things like the date when the computer is off.
If the battery is running down it can affect your system in small ways, even
when the power is on.

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"AIANDAS" wrote in message
...
It's not a laptop
"Diva" wrote in message
...
It could be the problem with the battery. it might tequire for you to
change
the Battery in the motherboard, This could because the battery does not
have
to store the date settings

Reply me if this works

"AIANDAS" wrote:

Can someone please help me for once deal with this problem?
I have posted here several times and all the suggestions are nowhere
close.
Somehow, someway the date on my taskbar changes. Today it decided to
jump
two days. Most of the time it's one day.
What is going on?????????? HELP!!!!!!!!!!

AIANDAS wrote:
It's not a laptop
"Diva" wrote in message
...

It could be the problem with the battery. it might tequire for you to
change
the Battery in the motherboard, This could because the battery does not
have
to store the date settings

Reply me if this works

"AIANDAS" wrote:


Can someone please help me for once deal with this problem?
I have posted here several times and all the suggestions are nowhere
close.
Somehow, someway the date on my taskbar changes. Today it decided to jump
two days. Most of the time it's one day.
What is going on?????????? HELP!!!!!!!!!!

Better known as a CMOS battery that saves BIOS settings in CMOS when it
gets old weird things happen to the date and time too. But you don't
need a whole ton of Time Servers either pick one or two closest to your
region.

Oh brother if it is the battery is it something I can get done or do I need
"expert" hands to charge me $70 or whatever?
How do I test if it is a battery thing?

"Philippe L. Balmanno" wrote in message
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AIANDAS wrote:
It's not a laptop
"Diva" wrote in message
...

It could be the problem with the battery. it might tequire for you to
change
the Battery in the motherboard, This could because the battery does not
have
to store the date settings

Reply me if this works

"AIANDAS" wrote:


Can someone please help me for once deal with this problem?
I have posted here several times and all the suggestions are nowhere
close.
Somehow, someway the date on my taskbar changes. Today it decided to
jump
two days. Most of the time it's one day.
What is going on?????????? HELP!!!!!!!!!!

Better known as a CMOS battery that saves BIOS settings in CMOS when it
gets old weird things happen to the date and time too. But you don't need
a whole ton of Time Servers either pick one or two closest to your region.

It is not an expensive item. In mine I can slide the old one out and slip
the new one. It depends on where it is on the motherboard, but most I have
seen make it fairly easy to do. It goes without saying you should use an
antistatic mat and unplug the power cord. If you don't want to do it
yourself, you may have some luck asking among your more nerdly friends. To
see what we are talking about, go he

http://www.computerhope.com/help/cmos.htm

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"AIANDAS" wrote in message
...
Oh brother if it is the battery is it something I can get done or do I
need "expert" hands to charge me $70 or whatever?
How do I test if it is a battery thing?

"Philippe L. Balmanno" wrote in message
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AIANDAS wrote:
It's not a laptop
"Diva" wrote in message
...

It could be the problem with the battery. it might tequire for you to
change
the Battery in the motherboard, This could because the battery does not
have
to store the date settings

Reply me if this works

"AIANDAS" wrote:


Can someone please help me for once deal with this problem?
I have posted here several times and all the suggestions are nowhere
close.
Somehow, someway the date on my taskbar changes. Today it decided to
jump
two days. Most of the time it's one day.
What is going on?????????? HELP!!!!!!!!!!

Better known as a CMOS battery that saves BIOS settings in CMOS when it
gets old weird things happen to the date and time too. But you don't
need a whole ton of Time Servers either pick one or two closest to your
region.

"AIANDAS" wrote in message
...
I am in a standalone PC............. I have just added a bunch of new
time servers and see what happens. So then the glitch is coming from
the time server I had originally fixed my date?
"Vanguard" wrote in message
...
"AIANDAS" wrote in message
...
Can someone please help me for once deal with this problem?
I have posted here several times and all the suggestions are nowhere
close.
Somehow, someway the date on my taskbar changes. Today it decided to
jump two days. Most of the time it's one day.
What is going on?????????? HELP!!!!!!!!!!


Run msconfig.exe to disable all startup programs, reboot, and then
test.

Disable the Windows Time service (run services.msc) to see if the
time changes again as you mention. If not then you might be
connecting to a time server to sync you time and the time server is
screwed up.

Are you on a domain or in a workgroup?


I had suggested *disabling* the Windows Time service to deliberately
PREVENT it from synchronizing against any time server. Then you are
just running the clock in the system to keep time. If the Windows Time
service is disabled and you experience the time deviation again then the
problems was with the time server. If the Windows Time service is
disabled and the clock still gets out of sync then you are running
something locally that is altering the time and the problem was NOT the
fault of a time server.

This test only would show if the Windows Time service or a 3rd party
time-sync utility that used that NT service was causing the problem. I
suppose there are some time sync utilities that don't use the Windows
Time service so they could still affect your time by doing a sync
without using the Windows Time service. There are also some logins that
will sync the time. If, for example, you are using the Netware login
manager (it shows up instead of the normal Windows login prompt), it has
a feature to connect to a time server (but it only syncs the time when
you login so it syncs once per user session).

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"AIANDAS" wrote in message
...
Oh brother if it is the battery is it something I can get done or do I
need "expert" hands to charge me $70 or whatever?
How do I test if it is a battery thing?

"Philippe L. Balmanno" wrote in message
news:SkbPd.10775$Tt.5707@fed1read05...
AIANDAS wrote:
It's not a laptop
"Diva" wrote in message
...

It could be the problem with the battery. it might tequire for you
to change
the Battery in the motherboard, This could because the battery does
not have
to store the date settings

Reply me if this works

"AIANDAS" wrote:


Can someone please help me for once deal with this problem?
I have posted here several times and all the suggestions are
nowhere close.
Somehow, someway the date on my taskbar changes. Today it decided
to jump
two days. Most of the time it's one day.
What is going on?????????? HELP!!!!!!!!!!

Better known as a CMOS battery that saves BIOS settings in CMOS when
it gets old weird things happen to the date and time too. But you
don't need a whole ton of Time Servers either pick one or two closest
to your region.




The CMOS battery costs maybe around $4. You open the case, pop out the
old wafer battery, and slide in the new one (wipe your fingerprints off
the new one before inserting).

However, you weren't clear if the time was changing while your system
was running continuously (i.e., always powered up) or when you cold
booted by powering up and booting into the OS. The CMOS battery retains
BIOS settings while the computer is powered down which includes the
hardware clock. If the CMOS wafer battery is dead, it cannot retain the
time so it is off when you next power up. However, once you have
powered up your computer, it is irrelevant what is the condition of the
wafer battery because the PSU will supply the power to keep the CMOS
copy of the BIOS table alive.

Are you losing time or it is getting off WHILE your computer is
continuously powered on? Or are you losing time when you power cycle
the computer (power it off and sometime later power it back on)?

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OK, the time problem occurs intermittently. It doesn't happen at regular
intervals either.
I have a poweredge server and went to dell's site and the problem just might
be the battery. But the problem I read now, is that the battery is not hot
swappable. I am still waiting to get an answer from them on that.
Does hot swappable mean you cannot replace it on the fly? Or that it cannot
be replaced?
I mean on the fly it would not make sense to do that, while the machine is
on. So.............

"Vanguard" wrote in message
...
"AIANDAS" wrote in message
...
Oh brother if it is the battery is it something I can get done or do I
need "expert" hands to charge me $70 or whatever?
How do I test if it is a battery thing?

"Philippe L. Balmanno" wrote in message
news:SkbPd.10775$Tt.5707@fed1read05...
AIANDAS wrote:
It's not a laptop
"Diva" wrote in message
...

It could be the problem with the battery. it might tequire for you to
change
the Battery in the motherboard, This could because the battery does not
have
to store the date settings

Reply me if this works

"AIANDAS" wrote:


Can someone please help me for once deal with this problem?
I have posted here several times and all the suggestions are nowhere
close.
Somehow, someway the date on my taskbar changes. Today it decided to
jump
two days. Most of the time it's one day.
What is going on?????????? HELP!!!!!!!!!!

Better known as a CMOS battery that saves BIOS settings in CMOS when it
gets old weird things happen to the date and time too. But you don't
need a whole ton of Time Servers either pick one or two closest to your
region.




The CMOS battery costs maybe around $4. You open the case, pop out the
old wafer battery, and slide in the new one (wipe your fingerprints off
the new one before inserting).

However, you weren't clear if the time was changing while your system was
running continuously (i.e., always powered up) or when you cold booted by
powering up and booting into the OS. The CMOS battery retains BIOS
settings while the computer is powered down which includes the hardware
clock. If the CMOS wafer battery is dead, it cannot retain the time so it
is off when you next power up. However, once you have powered up your
computer, it is irrelevant what is the condition of the wafer battery
because the PSU will supply the power to keep the CMOS copy of the BIOS
table alive.

Are you losing time or it is getting off WHILE your computer is
continuously powered on? Or are you losing time when you power cycle the
computer (power it off and sometime later power it back on)?

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I just looked up some link that posted in here, and according to it the
battery is supposed to last 10 years!!!!!!!!!!
I've had this machine barely over a year! I am beginning to think we're
barking up the wrong tree on this one since my usage is not heavy duty as
this machine is not on 24x7.


"Vanguard" wrote in message
...
"AIANDAS" wrote in message
...
Oh brother if it is the battery is it something I can get done or do I
need "expert" hands to charge me $70 or whatever?
How do I test if it is a battery thing?

"Philippe L. Balmanno" wrote in message
news:SkbPd.10775$Tt.5707@fed1read05...
AIANDAS wrote:
It's not a laptop
"Diva" wrote in message
...

It could be the problem with the battery. it might tequire for you to
change
the Battery in the motherboard, This could because the battery does not
have
to store the date settings

Reply me if this works

"AIANDAS" wrote:


Can someone please help me for once deal with this problem?
I have posted here several times and all the suggestions are nowhere
close.
Somehow, someway the date on my taskbar changes. Today it decided to
jump
two days. Most of the time it's one day.
What is going on?????????? HELP!!!!!!!!!!

Better known as a CMOS battery that saves BIOS settings in CMOS when it
gets old weird things happen to the date and time too. But you don't
need a whole ton of Time Servers either pick one or two closest to your
region.




The CMOS battery costs maybe around $4. You open the case, pop out the
old wafer battery, and slide in the new one (wipe your fingerprints off
the new one before inserting).

However, you weren't clear if the time was changing while your system was
running continuously (i.e., always powered up) or when you cold booted by
powering up and booting into the OS. The CMOS battery retains BIOS
settings while the computer is powered down which includes the hardware
clock. If the CMOS wafer battery is dead, it cannot retain the time so it
is off when you next power up. However, once you have powered up your
computer, it is irrelevant what is the condition of the wafer battery
because the PSU will supply the power to keep the CMOS copy of the BIOS
table alive.

Are you losing time or it is getting off WHILE your computer is
continuously powered on? Or are you losing time when you power cycle the
computer (power it off and sometime later power it back on)?

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You're correct, the battery should not be the problem. But then you didn't
tell us much about your machine. The more you give us to work with the less
we have to guess. Just a few years ago the batteries were rated for three
years and a lot of those machines are still in service.

Hot swapping is not something you want to do unless you are adminstering a
server running a fairly critical service. It involves opening the computer
and changing out hardware while the computer is still on.

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"AIANDAS" wrote in message
...
I just looked up some link that posted in here, and according to it the
battery is supposed to last 10 years!!!!!!!!!!
I've had this machine barely over a year! I am beginning to think we're
barking up the wrong tree on this one since my usage is not heavy duty as
this machine is not on 24x7.


"Vanguard" wrote in message
...
"AIANDAS" wrote in message
...
Oh brother if it is the battery is it something I can get done or do I
need "expert" hands to charge me $70 or whatever?
How do I test if it is a battery thing?

"Philippe L. Balmanno" wrote in message
news:SkbPd.10775$Tt.5707@fed1read05...
AIANDAS wrote:
It's not a laptop
"Diva" wrote in message
...

It could be the problem with the battery. it might tequire for you to
change
the Battery in the motherboard, This could because the battery does
not have
to store the date settings

Reply me if this works

"AIANDAS" wrote:


Can someone please help me for once deal with this problem?
I have posted here several times and all the suggestions are nowhere
close.
Somehow, someway the date on my taskbar changes. Today it decided to
jump
two days. Most of the time it's one day.
What is going on?????????? HELP!!!!!!!!!!

Better known as a CMOS battery that saves BIOS settings in CMOS when it
gets old weird things happen to the date and time too. But you don't
need a whole ton of Time Servers either pick one or two closest to your
region.




The CMOS battery costs maybe around $4. You open the case, pop out the
old wafer battery, and slide in the new one (wipe your fingerprints off
the new one before inserting).

However, you weren't clear if the time was changing while your system was
running continuously (i.e., always powered up) or when you cold booted by
powering up and booting into the OS. The CMOS battery retains BIOS
settings while the computer is powered down which includes the hardware
clock. If the CMOS wafer battery is dead, it cannot retain the time so
it is off when you next power up. However, once you have powered up your
computer, it is irrelevant what is the condition of the wafer battery
because the PSU will supply the power to keep the CMOS copy of the BIOS
table alive.

Are you losing time or it is getting off WHILE your computer is
continuously powered on? Or are you losing time when you power cycle the
computer (power it off and sometime later power it back on)?

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Ok, I've been following this post and there's only one item left that I
haven't seen mentioned --

Do you have your system plugged into a UPS? I saw one system (only one in
the course of numerous years) that had this same problem. It wasn't the
time server, it didn't have a virus, the motherboard battery was good, and I
couldn't figure it out.

As it turned out, the batteries in the UPS had gone bad and were
intermittently supplying the incorrect voltage Hz to the power supply. It
wasn't enough to cause errors or shutdowns, but it was enough to cause the
clock to not keep time, especially during a power-off state.

If you're connected to a UPS, unplug the system from the UPS and go right to
the wall outlet (preferably, a surge protector, but if you don't have one,
you're just testing a theory, not permanently going without protection.) If
you still lose / gain time, then that wasn't it. (Or, of course, if you
don't have a UPS.)

Just a thought.

"AIANDAS" wrote in message
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Can someone please help me for once deal with this problem?
I have posted here several times and all the suggestions are nowhere
close.
Somehow, someway the date on my taskbar changes. Today it decided to jump
two days. Most of the time it's one day.
What is going on?????????? HELP!!!!!!!!!!