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My clock was automatically moved forward last week to "summer time". However the clock moved forward 2 hours (rather than one) and each time I try to reset it the computer adds the hour back again when I switch on. I have altered the clock in the BIOS but this did not fix it....any suggestions welcomed - I keep thinking I am late for appointments (but doesn't mean I arrive early)!!
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IT - Learning all the time
Efficiency at it's highest! Have you ever changed the CMOS battery on the motherboard? If the clock kept accurate time and date until now, the battery still might be ok. Another thing that could make you jump 2 hours ahead might be the Time Zone setting- check that this is set for where you are from the Control Panel, Date/Time> check Time Zone /adjust at bottom. Other than that, I don't know.
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AMD Athlon K-7 700mhz
FIC SD-11 board NVIDIA Vanta-8
Win98SE 256MB RAM
VIA chipset
USB working...
Thank you - good suggestions but newish motherboard (6 months) and I did try altering time zones in cotrol panel - done it all again - maybe tenth time lucky - still keeps good time - just an hour ahead!
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IT - Learning all the time
Try unchecking the automatic change for daylight savings if you haven't already.
Is the bios clock changing as well or just the systray clock?
Just for kicks, move it back three hours from the two hour error and see what happens.
Vince
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[This message has been edited by irmeruu (edited 04-10-2002).]
Try moving east one time zone, or sell comp to an easterner?
It must be time for a dose of Virtual Medicine...
When you change the time, do you hit the "APPLY" button?
Is the time always the same amount of time off?
Does the BIOS time keep the right time, or is it also 2 hours wrong?
If none of the above work, take the battery out, and rub it gently with the eraser from a pencil (remember them?) Sometimes there is
a coating on the battery-and the eraser does
help.
If all else fails, try a freeware time-synch program called Dimension 4. You can set it to synch your clock at bootup.
JP
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Are you running multiple windows operating systems?
Thanks for all the help. I have tried putting the clock back two hours - no help - just turn my back and its added them back on again! Have just tried tegmentum's suggestion and altered the time in DOS and will wait to see what happens.
I am not running more than one OS but have been installing LAN around the home with three other computers all using slightly different versions of W98 and one XP - I haven't checked that all the clocks read the same - but don't suppose this should make any difference?
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No...changing the time in DOS didn't work either. It seems to add the extra hour even before I have shut-down. Could there be another timer running in the background? Doesn't seem to be anything new when I press ctrl-alt-del....any thoughts?
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IT - Learning all the time
I developed a new gremlin and in the process of trying to fix it the clock problem has resolved...please help with "LOCKed up on startup"
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IT - Learning all the time
I had some problems with starting which have resolved now autoexec.bat and config.sys have been disabled. While I was trying to figure out what had happened and starting in safe mode etc the clock kept perfect time. Now the computer is behaving normally, but about 5 min after startup just added an hour to the clock.....any ideas now?
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Hi
Well all was running smoothly and I had just come to accept the clocks little foible but then that gremlin got into me - I typed unlock (but forgot the c) and then recieved prompt about trying to find drive b (I don't have one of those) and then nothing. Finally restarted in safe mode to find all the drivers running in DOS - attempted to reinstall them - did a step by step startup and now find the desktop items no longer "point" to their respective drivers although all are working - I just cant find them - what do i do now?
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IT - Learning all the time
You could try booting into the dos prompt (not the shell from windows) use the: [scanreg/ restore] command. (no brackets, type extactly) Then pick a date you didn't have the problem.
Secondly I wonder if you use a home page in another time zone?
http://fyi.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/1...c.idg/?related
http://www.pcworld.com/resource/prin...id,9327,00.asp
http://www.wugnet.com/tips/display.asp?ID=564
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...e+one+hour+off
hope it helps.
mach
A hungry clock always goes back four seconds.
LOL - sorry couldn't resist
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