PC Clock Speeding Up Too Quickly

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k-dogg

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This has to be the single most frustrating thing and I need some help please. A while back I built my system and it was running fine. Maybe about 6 months later, the PC clock started increasing rapidly and it would not keep time. I recently went through a system rebuild because my original HD (Maxtor PATA 160) had spyware issues, so I got a PATA 120 and set it up as my main drive, with the 160 as a slave. Completely forgot that I used to have that timing issue, until about a week ago, when the clock started speeding up again. I switched out the CMOS battery and it was fine until today when the time started gaining. Does anyone have any idea as to what can be done to fix it? It is frustrating mainly because I have a TV card in the system and when the time is off, shows don't properly tape. Please let me know if I need to give any other details and thanks in advance for your help!

System (I do not overclock):
AMD Athlon XP 2600+ w/Retail HSF @ 2.09 GHz (Sandra says Thoroughbred core)
FIC AU13 w/nForce 2 ICP chipset
512MB Kingston RAM PC2700
BFG GeForce 4 Ti4200
Maxtor 120 PATA
Maxtor 160 PATA
Maxtor 45 PATA
NEC 8X DVD Burner
 
Yeah, my mobo's clock tends to go off pretty quickly. I've an nforce2 mobo as well. Seems to be a problem with nforce boards. My older via boards never had this issue.


I guess your only real 'solution' is to increase the rate at which windows synchronises it's time over the internet. By default it's set to 1 or 2 weeks I think. You should look into this 'cos the root of the problem is a hardware issue.
 
FOUND IT!

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet\Services\W32Time\TimeProviders\NtpClient]

"SpecialPollInterval"


Default value is 604800


which is EXACTLY the number of seconds in a week, so that's definitely the right key

So set it to whatever you think is a good rate. 86400 is a good value 'cos that'll do it daily.


Once you've changed that value, click on the 'update now' button in the internet time section and after it's done, it'll then be set to update daily.
 
Thanks spine, looks like this might provide a decent fix for now...I will give it a shot. I have seen programs out there that will check your system clock like every 5 min, but I don't feel I should have to pay for a solution to this problem :) Do you know if there is an nforce fix, if that is in fact causing the problem?

If anyone else has some input, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.
 
That would creep me out of my pc clock just decided on its own to speed up at like 3x the normal rate. Glad you found how to fix it though. :p
 
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