My clock is too fast

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GotNoRice

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The clock on my computer is too fast, and every 3-4 days or so it jumps ahead by about 5 minutes. Not that big of a deal being that XP has the internet time feature built in, but I believe it does that automatically only once a week.

Is there a hardware solution (other than replacing the motherboard or something) that I can use to fix the problem, or is there a way to change the auto update info for the XP internet time from a week to like 24 hours?

Is there a chance this problem is related to my computer being overclocked?
 
my first guess was that it was somehow linked to SMP (before seeing your sig), given that I've heard strange things about games doing similar things (speeding up) under SMP/X2 due to multithreading getting goofy. Given that you have an SMP system, maybe this could be it. Note that I'm not saying SMP is causing it, simply that something isn't correctly set up. Plus, it's just a guess. From the sound of it though, your internal windows clock is slightly off, but that should show up in programs that use the windows clock as well, such as benchmarks. If your benchmark scores seem inflated (run superpi, sandra, and 3dmark, not 01 though), then my guess would be the clock. It could also come from a bench cheating program (same thing as above).

Again, all just guesses.


Is it also possible that your cmos time is incorrectly set?

Is it possible that the clock is running slow, and when it jumps, that is windows updating the correct time?
 
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