WTF is up with my clock??

pseudonympseudonym Michigan Icrontian
edited October 2003 in Hardware
Ok, heres one for ya.

The clock on my Shuttle system is running far too fast. I got home from class and noticed it was about 20 minutes fast, so I changed it. A few minutes later I see its again moved too quickly and is a few minutes fast. I check out the clock and see its clicking off seconds pretty quick. Any ideas? My 2100 is doing the same thing, only not as severe. I'd known that one for awhile, but it was never like this one.

Stats- (Everything is running stock right as of now)
AMD 3000+ 400 FSB
Mushkin LvL 1 PC3200
Shuttle FN45
Win 2000

Comments

  • croc_croc_ New
    edited October 2003
    my SN41 seems to be running fine .... could it have to do with the cmos battery maybe?
  • pseudonympseudonym Michigan Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    Hmmm, that would be odd. The computer is only about a month old.
  • DogSoldierDogSoldier The heart of radical Amish country..
    edited October 2003
    It's a time machine. Somehow, your hardware has been configured perfectly to take advantage of Einsteins theorys. The clock is in fact correct. Have you noticed if people around you are moving slower than normal?
  • croc_croc_ New
    edited October 2003
    hahahahaha
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    No no I bet it's Aliens messing with him. You know lost time and all that. I bet your TV reception gets messed up too. That usually means they are on the way.
  • PirateNinjaPirateNinja Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    you have your clock updating from a network server that could be screwy?

    try manually setting your cpu speed in bios if its doing it automatically.
  • MarsupialMarsupial Montreal, Quebec, Canada
    edited October 2003
    isn't that what we call overclocking?
  • teflemingtefleming
    edited October 2003
    I've had the same problem with 2 different A7N8X's with 2100+ Pally and 2500+ Barton under XP Pro.
  • pseudonympseudonym Michigan Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    Aliens???? Time Machine??!?!?! OH DEAR GOD!! They're coming for me!!!! :eek2::eek2::eek2::eek3::eek3::eek3::eek3::eek3:

    The clock isn't updated from anywhere, and I already set the cpu speed manually. (Had to do it when I first got the system for some reason. It wouldn't auto detect the cpu).
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited October 2003
    How's the clock in the BIOS behaving? Is that running properly?
  • HaVoKHaVoK
    edited October 2003
    Sounds like a bad CMOS battery.
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    I never gave this thread a second thought until I read someone telling shorty that the server clock is off ...then I check back at this thread again ...then I checked my own clock and it happend to be off by 4 minutes according to nist.
    Sometime this morning I also noticed that my classroom clock was off ...my computer clock at my desk ...my server ...and all 22 workstations. In fact just about every clock that I've checked since the solar storms began is running a few minutes fast ...according to the nist of course.
    So whaddaya say ...is the atomic clock running a few minutes slow? nahhhh
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    UM..... Well, CMOS\Clock batteries hav an almost flat until dead line for voltage, BUT, it can peak a tib toward last of its life before dipping. Wild Idea, try a NEW CMOS cell, or if older boxes are involved run them for 4-5 days straight and see if teh soldered on batteries take a charge.

    Cesium waterfall clock rate change not likely, but ifg the fast server is hooked to boxes that use it as time server, your whole LAN SHOULD be fast. Solar flare likely to impede or coirrupt accurate syncing, not to change the Cesium Waterfall clock itself (that is what NIST uses in Boulder Colorado area).

    Either that, or the flare did not affect southern Florida. My computer and neato wind-up watch agree very closely with NIST.

    John :D

    John.
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    Ageek had this to say
    Either that, or the flare did not affect southern Florida. My computer and neato wind-up watch agree very closely with NIST.

    John :D

    John.

    Hehe ...we moved the NIST to Talahassee last summer!!! j/k;D
  • pseudonympseudonym Michigan Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    lol. It wasn't the cmos, looks like it was a trojan I missed from the, umnmmm, bible music.... It seems fine now.
  • CreepCreep Hell Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    My Clock is sync'd to internet time. So it's always right on the money..
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