Ok, after all my years of building and using computers this is the strangest thing that I've ever seen. The system (clock) time on my computer is running too fast. I am talking about the actual clock, not sytem timings. I.E. the clock i am talking about says it is now 1:30 PM EST. This clock is running so fast that in an hours time it will be ahead of the actual time by 20 minutes. If i watch the seconds tick off, they tick off way too fast. It's like windows is saying 1/2 of a second is really a second. I have to constantly synchronize my system clock online in order for it to show the right time. The system has been running fine for well over a year, and this problem just started a few days ago. I really have no idea what to do so I am putting my faith in these wonderful forums If you need any more info about the problem, let me know. I tried to explain it as best as I could. Any suggestions or solutions would be much appreciated. Thanks
did u use any ram booster program, or install any new program lately.? these ram booster prog may makes the time goes faster than normal.
If it only happened a few days ago, see if a system restore will cure it. If it does, look at which programs you installed. Performance booster aplications are quite notorious for messing with things like that.
I really have not installed any performance related programs. The only program that was installed, that seems to correspond with the timing of when the problem started happening is Nero 7 Ultra. I don't know why the new nero would cause this problem though. System restore is not an option as I am using Windows server 2003. I guess I will try uninstalling Nero 7 Ultra and see if it corrects the problem or not. On a side note, do you think this can be a problem with the system clock on my motherboard? Maybe my motherboard is on the fritz? Thanks for the responses.
Well, I really think its a problem with Nero 7 Ultra. I went to uninstall nero and i get an error so the installation is definitely corrupted. I can't uninstall the program at all. I just get an error with the uninstaller every time. Looks like i'll be reformatting in the next couple of days. That should definitely fix the problem :-/
go to nero site and download their clean tool, this will do the job.. http://ww2.nero.com/nero6/enu/Clean_Tools.html
Thanks for that clean tool, that was a good find I got rid of Nero completely, but the computer time is still running fast, as it was before I got rid of Nero 7 Ultra. So, I am really at a loss for solutions. Besides Nero, I really have not installed anything in a very long time; much longer than when this time problem started. Any ideas about how to troubleshoot this, or anything? I appreciate the help, at least I am rid of Nero for the moment :-/
As an update... I checked the moboard clock in the bios, and that clock is right on the money. The seconds are ticking at the right spead and it is accurate. If i restart windows, when the computer first boots back up the windows time is correct, however it runs fast from that point on. This leads me to believe that it is not my motherboard. Windoze is getting the right time on startup from the motherboard, but Windoze time itself is running fast there on out. Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this or how to reset the windows clock? I tried stopping the w32tm service, unregistering it, re registering it, and then starting the service again, but that did not help whatsoever. Any feedback is appreciated, thanks.
Ok, maybe I am just stupid, but if you can explain that microsoft article and what the Workaround means in dumbass terms, I would appreciate it. I have no clue what the article is referring to nor how to fix it.
It means one could have a [bold]"few days ago"[/bold] installed a program that runs in (ACPI) mode . If that's the case ,that piece of software should be modified to call the timeBeginPeriod function at startup and to call the timeEndPeriod function on exit. Only you knows if this applies to your situation.
