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xp sp2 w32time problem
I routinely get this event log entry:
Source: W32Time Type: Warning Category: None Event ID: 36 Description: The time service has not been able to synchronize the system time for 49152 seconds because none of the time providers has been able to provide a usable time stamp. The system clock is unsynchronized. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. and time is not in sync with my other systems (or my watch.) I have used various time sources, but get this message with any of them. I can do "w32tm /resync" successfully with any of them. I'm currently set to use time.windows.com. The time is not wildly off, it just increases a bit each day until its off by a minute or so in a few days or a week. I have read KB832936, which may or may not apply, and is supposed to have been fixed in sp2. Most of the messages are logged over night when I am not logged in. The system never goes into standby, but it is a notebook in a docking station and turns off its disks after 20 minutes of no activity. It is a standalone workstation, not in a domain, but in a workgroup with the same name as my domain (it travels a lot.) It has sp2 plus all security patches, a few other patches from windows update (root cert update, for example), and no hotfixes from MS or the download site. Anyone know what might be causing this before I call MS? Thanks. |
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=?Utf-8?B?Qm9zUmVn?= writes:
I routinely get this event log entry: Source: W32Time Type: Warning Category: None Event ID: 36 Description: The time service has not been able to synchronize the system time for 49152 seconds because none of the time providers has been able to provide a usable time stamp. The system clock is unsynchronized. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. and time is not in sync with my other systems (or my watch.) I have used various time sources, but get this message with any of them. I can do "w32tm /resync" successfully with any of them. I'm currently set to use time.windows.com. The time is not wildly off, it just increases a bit each day until its off by a minute or so in a few days or a week. I have read KB832936, which may or may not apply, and is supposed to have been fixed in sp2. Most of the messages are logged over night when I am not logged in. The system never goes into standby, but it is a notebook in a docking station and turns off its disks after 20 minutes of no activity. It is a standalone workstation, not in a domain, but in a workgroup with the same name as my domain (it travels a lot.) It has sp2 plus all security patches, a few other patches from windows update (root cert update, for example), and no hotfixes from MS or the download site. Anyone know what might be causing this before I call MS? Thanks. If you search old newsgroup postings you will find lots of people had that problem after SP2. I don't think anyone ever posted a definitive fix for this but there were the usual "try this" and "try that and see what happens." Appears to be a bug somewhere. |
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