Internal Clock Skips Ahead

[[H]Tek]

After leaving my computer running for several hours, I find that the clock sometimes skips ahead from anywhere to ten minutes to an hour. It is overclocked from a 2500+ (barton) to a 3200+. The cmos battery is fine, and it does this while running.

Does anyone know who to fix this?

 

[tdg]

Common problem nowadays. The issue is that the internal clock oscilator on the motherboard isn't tuned to the precise frequency for keeping accurate time, so it'll never be right. Best bet is to just download a clock synching utility and have it update the time a few times a day.

 

[MaMMa]

wow thats ghey

 

[[H]Tek]

Common problem nowadays. The issue is that the internal clock oscilator on the motherboard isn't tuned to the precise frequency for keeping accurate time, so it'll never be right. Best bet is to just download a clock synching utility and have it update the time a few times a day.

Your technical explanation doesnt cover the simple fact that I have had the motherboard for about 5 months and it just started doing this recently, and that it seems to only happen in windows.

 

[Roberty]

Is it keeping the correct time in the Bios? I always thought this was where Windows got it's time keeping info from.

 

[ameoba]

Nope... most OSes keep internal time going in software; only using BIOS to track things while the machine's powered down.

As for time sync software - windows has NTP built into it.

http://www.pool.ntp.org/#use

googling "windows NTP service" will probably come up with something on how to get the time service running on boot.