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by sdh4jesus

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I am running Windows XP Pro on an HP Pavillion 6635, and the time clock keeps losing time on the systray clock. I have replaced the battery on the motherboard thinking that was the problem, but it did not fix it. What else can I try to fix this?

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by fisheye121

also, make sure you are set to the right time-zone. Double-click on the time in the system tray and click on the time zone tab. Make sure it is accurate to your area. I had a user who kept loosing 3 hours, no matter how many times she reset the time. Turned out she was on Tiajuana time. Good luck.

by pbtoms

I'm assuming you've checked with HP? I know Dell had an issue with the clock losing time, and finally released a patch that fixed the problem. I had a couple machines here set up to sync with the time server every half hour, because it was losing as much as 10 minutes an hour! Some weird config thing with Dell machines. I don't know if HP has/had a similiar issue, but if you haven't already, I'd check with them. If you have, I apologize for being redundant, and hope you are not offended. ;-)

by pbtoms

Oh, by the way, you don't need a separate time-sync utility. XP has it built-in. Home will check internet time servers, pro looks to the Domain Controller for time sync...

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