Clock not working (running too fast)

[freakycody]

OKay my roomate jsut got an emachine, been working great except for one thing, randomly the window's clock will start flying, like a minute every 2 seconds. I thought it may be a virus or something and after scanning nothing was found, also ran adaware and that came up as a negative also. Once thing to note is that he has a usb belkin wireless g card that has software that needs to be running to be on the net. When the clock is going fast, you can see the blekin software flashing like no other, so i close that, (i still have interent connection), and the clock is still ticking fast. Then i close Steam (still going fast), then i when i open up adaware, it stops. If i do not do anything it will jsut go on forever. Will a fresh install solve this??? On another side note, i can not get into the bios, when the boot screen shows, it says hit f2 for bios settings, f10 for boot settings, when i hit either, nothing happens, it jsut goes black and it stays that way. Could this have anything to do with it? We jsut installed a PSU and Vid card after getting it so no clue if it was doing it before. On another side note, the original psu was a 20 pin with the 4 pin cpu power, the new psu we got was a 20+4 pin with a 4 pin cpu power. The mobo accepts the 24pin so we used the 24pin, could the 24pin be doing this (too much voltage) or what, what are those extra 4 pins for (i am not talking about the 4 pin connector for cpu)? Thanks, if this in the wrong forum, please move to respectable place.

 

[freakycody]

Bump....any help???

 

[insanarchist]

I seem to remember a thread about this around a year ago. I think it spawned a whole lot of 'time-machine' talk, if I recall correctly.

On a related note, I have no idea why this could be happening, although a time-space distortion field entirely located within your bios chip is, in fact, a highly likely culprit.