Computer is out of time!! Hey! Stupid comp

Tackle · Post by **Tackle** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 11:45 pm

I've noticed this before and it's still there so here goes:

double clicking the time (lower right corner, win2k here), brings up the big clock

so I watch the big lever (find better word for me, stick?) which displays seconds, and this one is synced to the very digits in the digit-field

but they're not in friggin time! three seconds can go away in one second, and then the next three are slow as hell, and it's all random, but in the end it's always the correct minute showing

anyone else seen this? that's what I wanna know!! say you have, now!!

Psyco · Post by **Psyco** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 11:53 pm

The clock display is just like any other process on your computer. It relies on the CPU and memory to be able to perform the calculations it needs.

If your computer is being over worked then the processing it needs done may not rise to the top of the list before the time passes. Its not a huge problem. If you really want to stop it happening then you either need to upgrade your computer a bit to give it more resources, close a few applications to free up the resources it has or perhaps even do a clean install so that it is actually using its resources as well as it could be.

Tackle · Post by **Tackle** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 12:33 am

I have an AMD64 3200+, 1024 meg pc3200 ddr, this is what it did on fresh install
must be the graphic card.. lol

but yeah I know what you're saying, and I'm not that surprised that it is the way it is, even with my recently upgraded specs

just checking if others have the same.. "artifact", not problem

Psyco · Post by **Psyco** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 12:42 am

It doesn't really matter what your specs are, regardless of what you are running if you do enough to it you will run out of resources. I could give you the specs of the cray we have running here and no system you could put together would be able to compete, yet we still max the poor thing out on a regular basis.

Your best bet would be to try and figure out what your computer is doing when the clock display stalls, right click on the task bar, open the task manager and try to see if you can spot a trend.

Tackle · Post by **Tackle** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 12:44 am

current trend is nothing right now; it behaves like that even when all other processes aren't running

headed to bed new zeelander!

Canadian Canuck · Post by **Canadian Canuck** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 1:32 am

check the time in the BIOS

GHENGIZ.KHAN · Post by **GHENGIZ.KHAN** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 7:04 am

so I watch the big lever (find better word for me, stick?)

Hand?

Enverex · Post by **Enverex** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 9:34 am

Sounds like your CMOS battery is dead as that can cause odd problems like thos.

Tackle · Post by **Tackle** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 1:10 pm

are you kidding me? my cmos battery aint dead

it's brand spanking new and fully operational, that's what it is

are you sure that's a sign for it? I think it sounds odd

HarveyH · Post by **HarveyH** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 1:16 pm

*shrugs* system clocks are strange things... I have a PC with a perfectly fine BIOS clock, but with a system time that is way too fast. As long as the machine is restarted every day, this is not a big problem (the two times get synchronized at boot I guess), but when the uptime reaches 10+ days a difference between system time and BIOS time of 14 minutes / day gets a bit too much.

Alric · Post by **Alric** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 11:42 am

You could always use a NTP-server to synchronize your system clock.

http://www.ntp.org/

Enverex · Post by **Enverex** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 11:48 am

What OS are you using? Because XP automatically sets the clock via an NTP server every so often...

Aradan Kir · Post by **Aradan Kir** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 12:12 pm

follow this simple flowchart :

1) Is the time correct? NO - goto step 2, YES - goto step 3

2) set it correctly. Goto step 1

3) stop caring and log onto Avlis !

Dralix · Post by **Dralix** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 12:14 pm

Atomic Clock Sync?

Zonr_0 · Post by **Zonr_0** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 7:09 pm

Enverex wrote:What OS are you using? Because XP automatically sets the clock via an NTP server every so often...

Just a note, I suggest setting the time synconization to Nasa, (time.nist.gov). Maybe I'm just paranoid, but I don't really trust microshaft at all. Especially after I downloaded a virus from the official microsoft website.

Grizpin · Post by **Grizpin** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 7:18 pm

Ive seen new boards ship with bad batteries. If you're still having the problem give it a look.

Chewhacca · Post by **Chewhacca** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 11:27 am

BIOS clocks have never been and probably never will be accurate.