THE CLOCK IS SLOWING IT DOESN'T KEEP TIME

[BEOR999]

HP Kayak XU 6/450X-512 Slot2
M4500/128

400MHz 512k Pentium II Xeon processor
4.5GB HDD, Elsa Gloria Synergy,
128MB SDRAM,
CD-ROM x32,
10/100BT, Dual Wide
Ultra SCSI cntrlr, Win NT 4.0

the real time clock is slow, how do i fix it ?

[Banti]

Some Power Managment Settings will cause your clock to lose time.

Banti

[Axel]

Any chance your CMOS battery might be bad?

Also - any chance you might have a virus? - update your definitions and do a thorough sweep of your system.

Also, what's running on start-up?

Lastly, any chance your system is having heat issues?

[richamies]

Ok guys I had a call for the exact same problem a couple of months back, but it was with 2 machines. Spent ages getting the case off and replaced the CMOS battery even though it was at 3.1 volts, didnt make it any better. Changed the system board - still no improvement. Finally clicked the system was pulling the date off the server at boot-up.....kicked myself for not realising that first!!! Might be worth a look as you say you have 10/100 fitted. I doubt a low CMOS battery would cause this but it might http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif If the battery is below 3v change it anyway. Has this happened for a while or is it only recently? Is it like half an hour behind all the time, or does it slow down gradually? If it's half an hour behind all the time, set the time to something stupid like 5 hours fast and see if it drops to hald an hour behind current time when you boot. If it does then it is pulling the time from the server, and you are chasing the problem at the wrong end.

Probably nothing at all to do with this http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif so I will look stupid.........again.....

[psyklone]

there's a possibility that your power supply may be having some issues. if the filter circuit in the power supply is feeding bad voltage to your system or if the signal coming in is less than 60Hz, this could cause the problem.

[richamies]

Not wishing to sound stupid here, and I'm not trying to "test" you or anything, but how will the power supply affect the teal time clock? The RTC is powered directly from the 3.3v battery and takes nothing off the PSU rail, its not even like it uses that rail for re-charging the battery or anything. Not trying to shoot ya down here or anything, if you know otherwise please explain to me and I will be even more knowledgable than before http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

[BBA]

I have never heard of a slot 2 Kayak...UNTIL NOW


Any ways, because of the release date of the XU6, it is still in warrentee...send the defective motherboard back for replacement.

( I happen to specialize in working on HP Kayak's http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif )

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[Dave_H]

Here is the cool program Axel was speaking about, it's freeware and works great.

Dimension 4 (http://www.accessone.com/~thinkman/dimension4/)

I got it set to run then exit only when I want to use it. I too have a clock problem where my time is off by exactly one hour about every week.

Cable users may need to change the protocol setting to "Time/tcp" for it to work.

Dave

(Dam keyboard)

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[Axel]

something else comes to mind. There was this really neat program called "atomic clock" that would automatically set your time against an internet time source every time you connected. Any chance you have something like that running on your system and you have a setting to a bad time source on the net. It might not be your system clock doing it. It may be your system is automatically synching to a bad source on the net. - just another possibility

[BEOR999]

the system was pulling the date off the server at boot-up.

I will leave the box as standalone to test this theory, and let you know.

I have already tried most other advice given, thanx http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[BBA]

Thats easy to check...change it's time setting way off and reboot...see if it resets.