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My computer clock runs slow!
My computer clock runs slow! A few minutes a week.
STEPS to fix ALREADY TAKEN: I have changed the MB battery (2 times in the last year). Still running slow. About 2 years ago I put in a new power supply and a new hard drive. The MB is an ASUS P4B533 (about 9 years old) with a P4 1.7 GHz chip. Running Win xp sp2 Any suggestions on what would STILL cause the clock to run slow and WHAT STEPS I MIGHT TAKE to fix it? Is there any program that I can put into my start up folder to run, check and automatically adjust the clock each time i boot up? (I do not think that the Windows time synchro can be set to run at boot up. It seems that it can only be set to run once a week) thx |
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My computer clock runs slow!
callcard1 wrote:
My computer clock runs slow! A few minutes a week. STEPS to fix ALREADY TAKEN: I have changed the MB battery (2 times in the last year). Still running slow. About 2 years ago I put in a new power supply and a new hard drive. The MB is an ASUS P4B533 (about 9 years old) with a P4 1.7 GHz chip. Running Win xp sp2 Any suggestions on what would STILL cause the clock to run slow and WHAT STEPS I MIGHT TAKE to fix it? Is there any program that I can put into my start up folder to run, check and automatically adjust the clock each time i boot up? (I do not think that the Windows time synchro can be set to run at boot up. It seems that it can only be set to run once a week) Get TCLOCK2. Have it set the time on a schedule. Get one of many free cock synch tools - do the same. Although - 9 years old - time to upgrade. Whole systems under $500 that would run circles around that system - with warranties, etc. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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My computer clock runs slow!
callcard1 wrote:
My computer clock runs slow! A few minutes a week. STEPS to fix ALREADY TAKEN: I have changed the MB battery (2 times in the last year). Still running slow. About 2 years ago I put in a new power supply and a new hard drive. The MB is an ASUS P4B533 (about 9 years old) with a P4 1.7 GHz chip. Running Win xp sp2 Any suggestions on what would STILL cause the clock to run slow and WHAT STEPS I MIGHT TAKE to fix it? Is there any program that I can put into my start up folder to run, check and automatically adjust the clock each time i boot up? (I do not think that the Windows time synchro can be set to run at boot up. It seems that it can only be set to run once a week) Get TCLOCK2. Have it set the time on a schedule. Get one of many free cock synch tools - do the same. Although - 9 years old - time to upgrade. Whole systems under $500 that would run circles around that system - with warranties, etc. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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My computer clock runs slow!
Older systems had a tendency to loose time
when under heavy use. Best to try a Time Sync utility like "Time Sync": http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptsync.asp -- JS http://www.pagestart.com "callcard1" wrote in message ... My computer clock runs slow! A few minutes a week. STEPS to fix ALREADY TAKEN: I have changed the MB battery (2 times in the last year). Still running slow. About 2 years ago I put in a new power supply and a new hard drive. The MB is an ASUS P4B533 (about 9 years old) with a P4 1.7 GHz chip. Running Win xp sp2 Any suggestions on what would STILL cause the clock to run slow and WHAT STEPS I MIGHT TAKE to fix it? Is there any program that I can put into my start up folder to run, check and automatically adjust the clock each time i boot up? (I do not think that the Windows time synchro can be set to run at boot up. It seems that it can only be set to run once a week) thx |
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My computer clock runs slow!
Older systems had a tendency to loose time
when under heavy use. Best to try a Time Sync utility like "Time Sync": http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptsync.asp -- JS http://www.pagestart.com "callcard1" wrote in message ... My computer clock runs slow! A few minutes a week. STEPS to fix ALREADY TAKEN: I have changed the MB battery (2 times in the last year). Still running slow. About 2 years ago I put in a new power supply and a new hard drive. The MB is an ASUS P4B533 (about 9 years old) with a P4 1.7 GHz chip. Running Win xp sp2 Any suggestions on what would STILL cause the clock to run slow and WHAT STEPS I MIGHT TAKE to fix it? Is there any program that I can put into my start up folder to run, check and automatically adjust the clock each time i boot up? (I do not think that the Windows time synchro can be set to run at boot up. It seems that it can only be set to run once a week) thx |
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My computer clock runs slow!
callcard1 wrote:
My computer clock runs slow! A few minutes a week. STEPS to fix ALREADY TAKEN: I have changed the MB battery (2 times in the last year). Still running slow. About 2 years ago I put in a new power supply and a new hard drive. The MB is an ASUS P4B533 (about 9 years old) with a P4 1.7 GHz chip. Running Win xp sp2 Any suggestions on what would STILL cause the clock to run slow and WHAT STEPS I MIGHT TAKE to fix it? Is there any program that I can put into my start up folder to run, check and automatically adjust the clock each time i boot up? (I do not think that the Windows time synchro can be set to run at boot up. It seems that it can only be set to run once a week) thx The RTC (real-time clock) chip will maintain time within a couple minutes per month. It is used when you boot your system. It is NOT used when the OS is running. So if the OS is highly stressed, its clock routine will get interrupted too often with the result that it loses time. That's why you need to run a time sync utility, especially if you leave your host powered up 24x7. While Windows comes with a Windows Time service to synchronize the clock, it does this at undefined intervals of its choosing. Also, it is preconfigured to use the Microsoft NTP servers which can get too busy to handle your request for an update (because all the other Windows users are using the default NTP server, too). You can edit the registry to add more NTP servers to the list available when using the Date and Time applet in Control Panel under the Internet tab. The NIST server might also be listed but, too, gets heavily accessed. These entries are stored under: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\DateTime\Servers It's easier to use a 3rd party time sync utility than to edit the registry (providing you know the NTP servers you are allowed to access and want to add to this list which have the lowest latency -- which is NOT the same as which ones are physically close to you). Many 3rd party time sync utilities will poll a long list of available 2nd tier NTP servers to find out which ones have the lowest latency (on the network) and one to sync your OS clock. I use LocutusCodeware's Socke****ch but it's not free (http://www.locutuscodeware.com/swatch.htm). There are free ones but most are extremely simplistic in their features. You can also update the NTP server list used by Socke****ch. For example, if my local university's NTP servers had not been listed, I could have added them to the servers.dat text file. Although close, I did not reduce the servers list to just my university's NTP servers as they may not have the shortest latency. A server thousands of miles away might have a lower latency (time between hops from source to target host) than the network route to a physically closer server. I configure the time sync at 1-hour intervals. I could go for 1-week intervals but 1 hour is not considered abusive at all. Do not go less than 10 minutes as this is often seen as abusive access and your OS clock shouldn't need to be updated that often. A reason to keep your clock in sync is that SSL requires the server and client hosts to be relatively close in time (with a minute, or so). Part of the hash code used in the initial handshaking includes a timestamp. If one host's time is significantly different than for the host at the other end of the connection, the session establishment process times out (it didn't actually time on in how long it took but because it looks like it took too long due to a host's clock being way off from the timestamp in the hash code). So you want to keep your OS clock within a minute of the standard time. |
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My computer clock runs slow!
callcard1 wrote:
My computer clock runs slow! A few minutes a week. STEPS to fix ALREADY TAKEN: I have changed the MB battery (2 times in the last year). Still running slow. About 2 years ago I put in a new power supply and a new hard drive. The MB is an ASUS P4B533 (about 9 years old) with a P4 1.7 GHz chip. Running Win xp sp2 Any suggestions on what would STILL cause the clock to run slow and WHAT STEPS I MIGHT TAKE to fix it? Is there any program that I can put into my start up folder to run, check and automatically adjust the clock each time i boot up? (I do not think that the Windows time synchro can be set to run at boot up. It seems that it can only be set to run once a week) thx The RTC (real-time clock) chip will maintain time within a couple minutes per month. It is used when you boot your system. It is NOT used when the OS is running. So if the OS is highly stressed, its clock routine will get interrupted too often with the result that it loses time. That's why you need to run a time sync utility, especially if you leave your host powered up 24x7. While Windows comes with a Windows Time service to synchronize the clock, it does this at undefined intervals of its choosing. Also, it is preconfigured to use the Microsoft NTP servers which can get too busy to handle your request for an update (because all the other Windows users are using the default NTP server, too). You can edit the registry to add more NTP servers to the list available when using the Date and Time applet in Control Panel under the Internet tab. The NIST server might also be listed but, too, gets heavily accessed. These entries are stored under: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\DateTime\Servers It's easier to use a 3rd party time sync utility than to edit the registry (providing you know the NTP servers you are allowed to access and want to add to this list which have the lowest latency -- which is NOT the same as which ones are physically close to you). Many 3rd party time sync utilities will poll a long list of available 2nd tier NTP servers to find out which ones have the lowest latency (on the network) and one to sync your OS clock. I use LocutusCodeware's Socke****ch but it's not free (http://www.locutuscodeware.com/swatch.htm). There are free ones but most are extremely simplistic in their features. You can also update the NTP server list used by Socke****ch. For example, if my local university's NTP servers had not been listed, I could have added them to the servers.dat text file. Although close, I did not reduce the servers list to just my university's NTP servers as they may not have the shortest latency. A server thousands of miles away might have a lower latency (time between hops from source to target host) than the network route to a physically closer server. I configure the time sync at 1-hour intervals. I could go for 1-week intervals but 1 hour is not considered abusive at all. Do not go less than 10 minutes as this is often seen as abusive access and your OS clock shouldn't need to be updated that often. A reason to keep your clock in sync is that SSL requires the server and client hosts to be relatively close in time (with a minute, or so). Part of the hash code used in the initial handshaking includes a timestamp. If one host's time is significantly different than for the host at the other end of the connection, the session establishment process times out (it didn't actually time on in how long it took but because it looks like it took too long due to a host's clock being way off from the timestamp in the hash code). So you want to keep your OS clock within a minute of the standard time. |
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My computer clock runs slow!
might want to check
the home site for the motherboard. perhaps, there are updates available to resolve the issue. -- db·´¯`·...¸)))º DatabaseBen, Retired Professional - Systems Analyst - Database Developer - Accountancy - Veteran of the Armed Forces - Microsoft Partner - @hotmail.com ~~~~~~~~~~"share the nirvana" - dbZen "callcard1" wrote in message ... My computer clock runs slow! A few minutes a week. STEPS to fix ALREADY TAKEN: I have changed the MB battery (2 times in the last year). Still running slow. About 2 years ago I put in a new power supply and a new hard drive. The MB is an ASUS P4B533 (about 9 years old) with a P4 1.7 GHz chip. Running Win xp sp2 Any suggestions on what would STILL cause the clock to run slow and WHAT STEPS I MIGHT TAKE to fix it? Is there any program that I can put into my start up folder to run, check and automatically adjust the clock each time i boot up? (I do not think that the Windows time synchro can be set to run at boot up. It seems that it can only be set to run once a week) thx |
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My computer clock runs slow!
might want to check
the home site for the motherboard. perhaps, there are updates available to resolve the issue. -- db·´¯`·...¸)))º DatabaseBen, Retired Professional - Systems Analyst - Database Developer - Accountancy - Veteran of the Armed Forces - Microsoft Partner - @hotmail.com ~~~~~~~~~~"share the nirvana" - dbZen "callcard1" wrote in message ... My computer clock runs slow! A few minutes a week. STEPS to fix ALREADY TAKEN: I have changed the MB battery (2 times in the last year). Still running slow. About 2 years ago I put in a new power supply and a new hard drive. The MB is an ASUS P4B533 (about 9 years old) with a P4 1.7 GHz chip. Running Win xp sp2 Any suggestions on what would STILL cause the clock to run slow and WHAT STEPS I MIGHT TAKE to fix it? Is there any program that I can put into my start up folder to run, check and automatically adjust the clock each time i boot up? (I do not think that the Windows time synchro can be set to run at boot up. It seems that it can only be set to run once a week) thx |
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My computer clock runs slow!
"callcard1" wrote in message ... My computer clock runs slow! A few minutes a week. STEPS to fix ALREADY TAKEN: I have changed the MB battery (2 times in the last year). Still running slow. About 2 years ago I put in a new power supply and a new hard drive. The MB is an ASUS P4B533 (about 9 years old) with a P4 1.7 GHz chip. Running Win xp sp2 Any suggestions on what would STILL cause the clock to run slow and WHAT STEPS I MIGHT TAKE to fix it? Is there any program that I can put into my start up folder to run, check and automatically adjust the clock each time i boot up? (I do not think that the Windows time synchro can be set to run at boot up. It seems that it can only be set to run once a week) thx Additional ones you can use. An easy one from Doug Knox that alters the registry. http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_inet_time.htm tclockex, one I prefer. http://www.rcis.co.za/dale/tclockex/ YMMV Ted |
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My computer clock runs slow!
"callcard1" wrote in message ... My computer clock runs slow! A few minutes a week. STEPS to fix ALREADY TAKEN: I have changed the MB battery (2 times in the last year). Still running slow. About 2 years ago I put in a new power supply and a new hard drive. The MB is an ASUS P4B533 (about 9 years old) with a P4 1.7 GHz chip. Running Win xp sp2 Any suggestions on what would STILL cause the clock to run slow and WHAT STEPS I MIGHT TAKE to fix it? Is there any program that I can put into my start up folder to run, check and automatically adjust the clock each time i boot up? (I do not think that the Windows time synchro can be set to run at boot up. It seems that it can only be set to run once a week) thx Additional ones you can use. An easy one from Doug Knox that alters the registry. http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_inet_time.htm tclockex, one I prefer. http://www.rcis.co.za/dale/tclockex/ YMMV Ted |
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