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4dsc

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Thu May-11-06 05:23 PM
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Computer geeks I have a question

Why is the clock on my computer always off?? I'll set it one day and in about week its off by as much as a half hour?? Is it time I get a new CPU??

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mduffy31

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Thu May-11-06 05:31 PM
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1. No

It may the battery inside. My old computer did the same thing, and when I changed the battery in it, I didn't have that problem.

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Deja Q

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Thu May-11-06 05:39 PM
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2. I recall the days when the battery was soldered onto the motherboard.

Now it's an easily removed piece of lithium, but in the olden days - once the battery petered out, new mobo time thans to a bunch of sodding mofos! :D

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4dsc

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Thu May-11-06 05:54 PM
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4. There's a battery in my computer??

Well what do you know.. SO if I have an old emachine from about 1999, anyone know where I could find it or what it look like??

thanks for the help so far..

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ghostsofgiants

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Thu May-11-06 06:31 PM
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9. It powers the bios clock.

It'll look something like this:

(The big silver thing on the right. Kinda hard to miss if you know what you're looking for.)

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smtpgirl

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Thu May-11-06 06:55 PM
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12. it is the CMOS battery, looks like a watch battery

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mikeiddy

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Thu May-11-06 05:41 PM
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3. Computer clocks are notoriously inaccurate

I've never had one keep good time. You can find free software that will sync your computer clock to an atomic clock, if it is important to have accurate time.

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ghostsofgiants

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Thu May-11-06 06:24 PM
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7. Windows XP automatically syncs to the atomic clock.

Edited on Thu May-11-06 06:24 PM by primate1

Windows 2000 probably does as well.

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4dsc

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Thu May-11-06 06:31 PM
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10. I'm using ME

Boy do I need to upgrade my equipment...

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ghostsofgiants

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Thu May-11-06 06:32 PM
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11. You especially need to get rid of ME...

Considered one of the worst operating systems ever, haha.

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smtpgirl

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Thu May-11-06 06:57 PM
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13. I think ME & 98 have the atomic time too

if you just double-click on the time when online, you can click on the internet tab and sync the clock to the time. time.nist.gov I think is the atomic clock

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LSK

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Thu May-11-06 05:54 PM
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5. do you login to a domain?

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4dsc

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Thu May-11-06 06:21 PM
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6. Not that I know about..

My computer is on all the time except when rebooting..

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DrDebug

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Thu May-11-06 06:29 PM
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8. I have the same problem. It's off by 5 minutes already

It's because it is a state of the art HP. Never had the problem with the cheap nameless clones, but this is one of the extras of a brand name.

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