I have a strange problem with 4 different computers. The pc clock on all of these computers is always wrong. The date is fine. If I use either the bios settings to set the correct time or I use the control panel, regional settings, etc. to set the time on any one of these four computers the time will only stay correct when they are on. If I do a restart the computer will restart and the times will be correct, but if I do a shutdown and then turn computer back on..the time will be either 5,6, or7 hours ahead of the correct time.
So far I have checked for viruses, run SpyBot, changed the bios battery and I still have the problem, so far I have done these changes on just one of the computers, figuring that once I fix one, I will have theanswer and then I will fix the other three.
Now for some history, this all seems to have started, sometime after we installed McAfee Virus protection on these computers. I have looked at their site but find nothing regarding the virus software screwing up the pc clocks.
The setup for these is computers is this: They are using Wingate as a proxy server on the one computer that is connected to a cable modem (com21) the other three computer then share the Internet conncection and two travel agency software applications for booking vacations, etc.
Now originally the computer running Wingate had a small application called “Precision Time” running on it and it was not correcting the time as designed. What I mean is that if you went in and used “Precision Time” to set the time it would correct it, but the once you did a shutdown and restart the time would again be hours ahead of the correct time. So I uninstalled this software and tried “Atomic Time” and this still did not fix the problem.
I thought that maybe since this computer was the wingate server that if its time was wrong, perhaps the other 3 computers were somehow getting their time from it. So what