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PC LOOSES TIME.

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by jollypr

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I HAVE A PACKARD BELL WICH WILL LOOSE 6 HOURS A DAY OR MORE BUT IF I REBBOT THE PC THE TIME COMES UP RIGHT. SINCE THIS PROBLEM STARTED A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO I HAVE REPLACED THE BATTERY AND HAD TO REPLACE THE POWER SUPPLY. ALSO SYSTEM IS VERY UNSTABLE AND CRASHES LOTS.

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by thechas

Since you recover correct time on a re-boot, this is a "system" clock, and not a "real-time-clock" issue.

The first thing I would do, would be to swap out the CPU, and install a new CPU cooling fan.

If you are still loosing time, the most likely suspect then is the oscillator that produces the system clock for the CPU.
If so, it's time for a new motherboard / system.

It wouldn't hurt to check for viruses, and spyware, but I think it is a motherboard/cpu problem.

Chas

by maddiuex

Have you updated the system bios? If not that may be the issue, but also you can download atomic clock from download.com

Hope this helps

by cbehrent

Are you running Win98? Do you have the Underwater screensaver on (or any other Desktop Theme ones)? We have found alot of PC's running this screensaver and when you wake the PC up out of the screensaver, the PC will run very slow and cause programs to crash, until the PC is restarted then it will run fine until the screen saver starts again. We have tested this for a while and when the screensaver was changed to a plain Windows one, the PC runs fine, no crashes, no slowness. Hope this helps

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