Clock losing time

New CMOS battery a month or so ago, but
after two weeks idle the PC now loses time even
faster than before e.g. 10 min. in the last four
hours. Where is there good documentation on
this? System is an old Pentium II at 400 MHz,
128 Mb, 40 Gb HD half empty, Registry maintained
with Fix-It Utilities, ScanDisked and DeFragged
regularly.
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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)

Windows Clock on Taskbar and in Date/Time Tool Loses Time
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=189706


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"Don Phillipson" wrote in message
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New CMOS battery a month or so ago, but
after two weeks idle the PC now loses time even
faster than before e.g. 10 min. in the last four
hours. Where is there good documentation on
this? System is an old Pentium II at 400 MHz,
128 Mb, 40 Gb HD half empty, Registry maintained
with Fix-It Utilities, ScanDisked and DeFragged
regularly.
--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)

To determine whether it is something in Windows or something pre-Windows
(battery/BIOS setting)...

(1) Set clock in Windows. Shut down overnight (or long enough).
(2) Boot to Command Prompt Only, by holding CTRL as you boot to get the
Startup Menu, if it isn't already enabled at "START, Run, MSConfig,
Advanced button".
(3) Enter "TIME", no quotes. (Then, ENTER, to exit w/o changing.)
(4) Ctrl-Alt-Del to boot Windows.

Was the time wrong in DOS?.. It's the battery or BIOS, then. Otherwise,
it is something about Windows, maybe the Startup Group or a driver.

C:\time/?
Displays or sets the system time.

TIME [time]

Type TIME with no parameters to display the current time setting and a
prompt for a new one. Press ENTER to keep the same time.

C:\time
Current time is 6:54:27.68p
Enter new time:


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Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"Don Phillipson" wrote in message
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| New CMOS battery a month or so ago, but
| after two weeks idle the PC now loses time even
| faster than before e.g. 10 min. in the last four
| hours. Where is there good documentation on
| this? System is an old Pentium II at 400 MHz,
| 128 Mb, 40 Gb HD half empty, Registry maintained
| with Fix-It Utilities, ScanDisked and DeFragged
| regularly.
| --
| Don Phillipson
| Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)
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