On 27-May-06 Tim Green wrote:
On 5/27/06, Ted Harding Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
I've discovered that the hardware clock on one of my machines is running about 2/3 slow: loses about 20min in each hour. For the time being, I'm writing the system time to it every so often, and the system time is updated hourly by NTP.
I have no cure, except to run ntpd all the time - it will notice your clock drifting and correct it.
But the principal irritation of it is that the system clock is set from the HW clock on bootup, so I have to make provision to over-ride that.
Don't turn the computer off?
Normally I don't, except occasionally. but recently I've been doing some "maintenance" and have rebooted several times (which is how I noticed what's goinf on).
Does anyone have any suggestions for why this might be happening, and/or for what to so about it?
Probably worth checking the bios battery.
I thought of that, but couldn't see one anywhere. However, a little while ago, looking over the mother board I saw a block-like item attached to it, and guessing that this might be the clock I gave it a firm press with my thumb. Since then, the HW clock seems to be staying in sync with the system time (to a second or two), so maybe I've cured it!
Thanks for the comments, Tim. Ted.
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