XP clock running late...any ideas?

daman wrote:

>Some people know the problem but this is odd.
>My MB battery is good but after booting XP it starts running late,
>like 10-15 min per hour. The more tasks the later the clock is
>running.

This problem seems to happen quite often especially with Dell machines.
Usually a steady rate of loss like 10 minutes in an hour. It appears to
result from a conflict with the BIOS over the interval between 'timer
interrupts'. Windows maintains the clock by counting these, so if the
interval is not the expected one, the rate is grossly out in this
manner.

Try these steps:

1. Start->Run cmd.exe
2. net stop w32time
3. w32tm.exe /unregister
4. w32tm.exe /register
5. net start w32time

(note spellings w32tm and w32time in different commands)


--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. Alexn@mvps.org

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 20:51:16 -0700, "Ken Blake"
<kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain.com> wrote:

>"daman" <katoro@gigi.com> wrote in message
>news:tpimhvkuaahi6aciud3mhrf1kk22rkvj4r@4ax.com.. .
>,

>> Some people know the problem but this is odd.
>> My MB battery is good but after booting XP it starts running

>late,

>> like 10-15 min per hour.

>
>
>Try this:
>
>Open a command prompt window (Start | Run | cmd) and enter the
>following commands:
>
>net stop w32time
>w32tm /unregister
>w32tm /register
>net start w32time

Thanks...yes I tried this long time ago and it's not helping...