My PC is losing time!

[feo]

I was away on holiday for 5 days and obviously the PC was off for that time. When I got back, the time in Windows was a few hours behind so I just fixed it. Now this morning I noticed that the PC lost a few hours AGAIN. Any ideas why?

 

[Xenophon]

your battery?

 

[feo]

That little silver round thing on the mobo? Do I have to get a new one?

 

[Xenophon]

yes, they're not expensive

 

[SYNERGY]

Buy the other battery first and replace the battery in a minimal amount of time as on some mobo's when you remove the battery for more than 5 seconds, you end up loosing your bios settings.
Any watch shop will keep the battery.

 

[The_Techie]

Replace the CMOS battery

 

[acidrain]

and on a laptop, i seem to have the problem aswell, only lose hours tho... minutes are always right but the hours get knocked back one or two. Im thinking if its not a problem due to this TinyXP that im running.

 

[JAS]

Loosing time when the computer is switched off is the first sign that the CMOS/RTC battery is going flat. If you leave it much longer, you run the risk of also loosing your CMOS settings, so get it replaced as soon as possible. Look at the battery on your motherboard to get the exact model number - It will probably be a "CR2032" that you will need to ask for. [BTW: This is code for "Coin cell", "Round", 20mm diameter and 3.2mm thick.] Other advise give above is correct.

acidrain, if your minutes are always correct, then it doesn't sound like a CMOS battery problem. Have you checked that your time zone is set correctly? By default, Windows XP and later will sync your computer time with an internet time-server every now and again, so if your time zone is wrong, then the hours will be set for that time zone.

 

[GTi]

It's time to replace the systems battery.

 

[feo]

Will do, so any battery shop will sell 'em right?

 

[gregmcc]

Yip - just get the number of the battery. Most chemists sell batteries as well, sometime a lot cheaper than watch shops.

 

[Anthro]

I just hope you get to 2008 with your pc losing time like that - hell you might even discover a nonparallel universe ..
let us know when you get there

 

[feo]

Yip - just get the number of the battery. Most chemists sell batteries as well, sometime a lot cheaper than watch shops.

Cool thanks very much guys, appreciate it.

I just hope you get to 2008 with your pc losing time like that - hell you might even discover a nonparallel universe ..
let us know when you get there

I am Legend.

 

[kronoSX]

I to am getting different time,but in vista the time is correct but in xp the time always goes wrong,Now i know cmos battery is not flat,and also i unticked the internet syncro time off....now what could cause this