Clock on pc

[Kherard]

Very simple I'm sure....guess I'm brain dead...What would cause the clock to have normal time when pc is booted up..then later in the day, just all of a sudden its lost an hour or so?

[bkehoe]

My laptop once did that, and would loose around 10mins per hour. Restarting would fix it. Reinstalled and the problem went away.

Brendan

[garybeafl]

Hi I remember that Norton was the cause of this. Maybe you could do a search for this.

[Roy]

Weak CMOS battery.

[Axel]

A virus -
Way way way too many things running -
a bad motherboard battery -
the clock-chip on the motherboard is failing -
a scheduled atomic clock program set to the incorrect time zone -
if on NT and with the time service running, someone may have fudged the time on the clock-source you are connecting to ( typically the DNS server ) -

What were you doing between boot-up and noticing the clock being off? Are you sure it's off and sure it wasn't off when you booted?

That's all that comes to mind.