computer losing time

[scottatwittenberg]

what would cause a computer to lose time? the clock gets slow by about 5 minutes a day
i am going to replace the bios/cmos battery... i hope that works..
its a dell latitude d620

thanks

 

[Michael Daly]

It may be the battery.

To minimize the problem, set your OS to sync with time on the internet.

 

[Outamyhead]

Yep most likely the battery has lost it's charge, it will get gradually worse until you change it.

 

[NKDietrich]

Yeah one of my old machines had this problem, it got so bad i was sync'ing with the net every few minutes just to keep it accurate.