I recently checked my clock it it was 5 minutes behind of the actual time. I have a q9550 2.83 processor with a ud3r motherboard and hd 4890 gpu. Is this normal? By the way is there any way that I can fix it so that the time is right the whole time without me needing to adjust it manually, but so that it updates by itself if it goes just a little slow? Thanks.
Have you checked it with an official time zone, such as GMT or eBay time? Comparing your PC time to a clock set in your house is inaccurate.
I checked it with my cell phone time which automatically sets the clock depending on where you are located.
That may or may not be accurate. Use a known reliable timesource like ebay time, or heck, just put 'the time' into google.
yeah Just checked it, it was accurate so my pc was truely running the clock slow for some reason and I want to fix it if possible.
Just set the PC to use an atomic clock ~ I have all my XP machines keep perfect time this way. I do the same (but obviously with better tools ie NTP) in linux, in fact i've configured Enterprise servers with NTP but i digress. If your time was wildly out it could point to the BIOS battery but if it's just a few minutes it's just a case of using an atomic clock, see here ~ http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Servers/NTPPoolServers
So you're saying that my motherboard came with a bad bios battery? It was 5 minutes off since the last time I set it correctly which was about a month or 2 ago and about 2 days ago it was 5 mins off and i had to adjust it again. So doesn't the battery self charge or does it need to be replaced? By the way what are some other things the bios battery is used for? I am just asking to be sure if it's that important. And in the update timer thing do i set it to time.windows.com or time.nist.gov and why?
PC's often lose a little time. Just pick the one from my previous post that's most relevant to where you live. Windows will then check/update the time every week, you can make it update manually whenever you want, and it looks like you can use regedit so that it checks/updates every day ~ http://www.videohelp.com/forum/arch...-more-often-computer-losing-time-t265269.html
