PC Clock going WAY too fast?

[KnickNut3]

This is very werid. I had a problem with my machine a few months ago with its clock going a few minutes fast per day. I kept Atomic Clock Sync running, and it was fine.

A few weeks ago, I reformatted, and my clock kept perfect time for a few weeks, until yesterday I saw it start to go fast a few minutes. This became faster and faster and more frequent. I checked my BIOS, and my BIOS has kept perfect time the whole time. It started going so fast, you could visably see it going to fast (very surreal, seeing seconds go by a bit too fast). I used Atomic Clock Sync to see that it is gaining about 10 seconds PER MINUTE. It's very weird, especially after the problem went away for a while. By watching the seconds, it seems like 4 go too fast, then 1 second goes at normal speed, over and over. Any suggestions? Thanks.

[Peter M]

The actual real time clock (as seen in BIOS) runs correctly, but the software maintained clock (of the running system) is off? If that's true, then you have to look at software issues, like suspicious background tasks, recent driver updates etc.

[KnickNut3]

Hmm... I didn't install anything or update any drivers in the past 24-48 hours, since it started... I changed my WinStyles theme, but that's about it.

[Gait_Keeper]

I had a similar problem, never measured how much time it was gaining, but it went away after about a month.

never figured that one out.
And we are not alone, I've seen posts about time speeding up many times here at techimo , who knows............

[KnickNut3]

Maybe the computer Gods are trying to send a message about how much time we waste sitting in front of these machines when we could be out experiencing all the world has to offer...

nah!

[DallasDon]

You probably have the Atomic clock sync set to sync ever hour or so. Therefore, you see the "sync" in a short time frame. That's why it appears to be ok for a while, then runs fast for a few seconds.

If you set it to sync once a week, you probably won't notice the erratic behavior.

It's all because the earth rotates 365 and one quarter and then some times in a year. Ergo, every four years, we throw in an extra day to even it out. The Atomic Clock people throw in a "leap second" every now and then just to keep us on track. Otherwise, it would snow in August every five or six hundred years.

[KnickNut3]

No, man. I didn't have it set to do anything at all. I just installed it last night after seeing the irratic behavor, and I've only been doing it as "sync now" to see how far it had fallen out.

And this isn't now and again. This was every second (except for the 5th second), then you'd see 4 more seconds that are too fast.

That said, I ran Ad-Aware on an in-depth scan, and it's been keeping decent time. I'm going out now--let's hope it holds.

[Anach]

Im having the same problem, it only started this month. 10/2003

Clock keeps gaining a few seconds every minute.

I have no idea why, never seen this prob before.

[KnickNut3]

I haven't had problems since I ran adaware. I suggest that.

[stroyal]

The last time I installed Atomic Clock, a year ago, I got adware.