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Computer clock is too slow
My computer clock looses 2-4 minutes per week. It is set to
synchronize automatically, but the sync takes place only once per week. Can I set the synchronization to take place daily - or can I do something to make the clock more accurate? The computer has Windows Vista; processor: Intel Pentium D 830; Ram: 3072 Mbytes Thank you Ealadi |
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Computer clock is too slow
On 27 May, 17:51, ealadi wrote:
My computer clock looses 2-4 minutes per week. It is set to synchronize automatically, but the sync takes place only once per week. Can I set the synchronization to take place daily - or can I do something to make the clock more accurate? The computer has Windows Vista; processor: Intel Pentium D 830; Ram: 3072 Mbytes Thank you Ealadi I think this is a symptom of the CMOS battery being too low. It can be replaced. You can flick it out with a screwdriver! There aren't much in the way of issues in doing that. i think the battery has 2 letters followed by 4 digits. e.g. something like CR 2032 or something.. And there's something along the lines of the letters not mattering. So you buy a new battery with the same number. i just go into my electronics store, show them the battery i took out, and they point me to a replacement. Dead cheap. it's like a big watch battery. Like a silver coin. I guess it's worth noting which way the one in there goes in. just so you don't put the new one in the wrong way. |
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Computer clock is too slow
ealadi wrote:
My computer clock looses 2-4 minutes per week. It is set to synchronize automatically, but the sync takes place only once per week. Can I set the synchronization to take place daily - or can I do something to make the clock more accurate? The computer has Windows Vista; processor: Intel Pentium D 830; Ram: 3072 Mbytes That does seem like a lot of slippage. http://www.freepctech.com/pc/xp/xp00010.shtml |
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Computer clock is too slow
On 27 May 2007 10:19:37 -0700, "
wrote: On 27 May, 17:51, ealadi wrote: My computer clock looses 2-4 minutes per week. It is set to synchronize automatically, but the sync takes place only once per week. Can I set the synchronization to take place daily - or can I do something to make the clock more accurate? The computer has Windows Vista; processor: Intel Pentium D 830; Ram: 3072 Mbytes Thank you Ealadi I think this is a symptom of the CMOS battery being too low. It can be replaced. You can flick it out with a screwdriver! There aren't much in the way of issues in doing that. i think the battery has 2 letters followed by 4 digits. e.g. something like CR 2032 or something.. And there's something along the lines of the letters not mattering. So you buy a new battery with the same number. C = lithium, important for longer life at low drain R = round 2032 is the standard size, meaning 20 mm wide and 3.2 mm thick |
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Computer clock is too slow
ealadi wrote:
My computer clock looses 2-4 minutes per week. It is set to synchronize automatically, but the sync takes place only once per week. Can I set the synchronization to take place daily - or can I do something to make the clock more accurate? The computer has Windows Vista; processor: Intel Pentium D 830; Ram: 3072 Mbytes Thank you Ealadi You can change the auto sync time interval. This one does it for you. http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_inet_time.htm |
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Computer clock is too slow
On Sun, 27 May 2007 14:46:11 -0400, kony
wrote: There aren't much in the way of issues in doing that. i think the battery has 2 letters followed by 4 digits. e.g. something like CR 2032 or something.. And there's something along the lines of the letters not mattering. So you buy a new battery with the same number. C = lithium, important for longer life at low drain .... and important in that being lithium it's 3V instead of some other like 1.5V |
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Computer clock is too slow
On 27 May, 19:46, kony wrote:
On 27 May 2007 10:19:37 -0700, " wrote: On 27 May, 17:51, ealadi wrote: My computer clock looses 2-4 minutes per week. It is set to synchronize automatically, but the sync takes place only once per week. Can I set the synchronization to take place daily - or can I do something to make the clock more accurate? The computer has Windows Vista; processor: Intel Pentium D 830; Ram: 3072 Mbytes Thank you Ealadi I think this is a symptom of the CMOS battery being too low. It can be replaced. You can flick it out with a screwdriver! There aren't much in the way of issues in doing that. i think the battery has 2 letters followed by 4 digits. e.g. something like CR 2032 or something.. And there's something along the lines of the letters not mattering. So you buy a new battery with the same number. C = lithium, important for longer life at low drain R = round 2032 is the standard size, meaning 20 mm wide and 3.2 mm thick- thanks.for filling in... Also, I just googled, the issue I had in mind about the 2 letters not mattering, and only the number mattering, was that there is a lithium, round, 2032 battery made by duracell, but duracell instead of calling it the proper technical abbreviation CR .. they use the brand name DL(as in duracell) .. So, Duracell call theirs DL2032 instead of CR2032. |
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Computer clock is too slow
On 27 May 2007 09:51:25 -0700, ealadi wrote:
My computer clock looses 2-4 minutes per week. It is set to synchronize automatically, but the sync takes place only once per week. Can I set the synchronization to take place daily - or can I do something to make the clock more accurate? Use some of this time synchronizers http://www.tucows.com/Windows/Intern...Synchronizers/ |
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Computer clock is too slow
Forget the Microsoft time synchronizer. Get a utility that is easy to configure. I use Tardis 95 which works with all versions of windows from Win95 to WinXP. Don't know about Vista because I have not yet been forced to use it. ealadi wrote: My computer clock looses 2-4 minutes per week. It is set to synchronize automatically, but the sync takes place only once per week. Can I set the synchronization to take place daily - or can I do something to make the clock more accurate? The computer has Windows Vista; processor: Intel Pentium D 830; Ram: 3072 Mbytes Thank you Ealadi -- Mike Walsh West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A. |
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