Hi I have a TR3 that seems to loose time after each boot.  I have not looked into other programs that may be resetting the time but was wondering if this is a known issue.  I cannot find any discussions about it.  After each boot the time changes by a few minutes.

As I dont have access to the machine at the moment, most of this is from memory.

Thanks for any advice.

Usually something like this refers to a bad battery on the motherboard but it shouldn’t run out so fast. Do you have internet connectivity all the time? If so, you can run the atomic clock update (or find a utility that does it frequently) to keep your clock correct.

I’m going to do a few more tests to see where it is failing.  I’ll work out how many minutes have been lost after leaving it off for (say ) 6 hours. I thought about a time server but it is only on a dialup internet connection. Thanks for the tips.

This is not unusual. Computers a notorious for keeping horrible time. In XP you can have it sync time when your connected to the internet…its amazing, a $0.99 watch keeps better time then a $2K computer

Erik

[quote author=“griv”]Hi I have a TR3 that seems to loose time after each boot.  I have not looked into other programs that may be resetting the time but was wondering if this is a known issue.  I cannot find any discussions about it.  After each boot the time changes by a few minutes.

This is usually due to a wrong timing source, especially seen on notebooks. Unfortunately, XP is very, very bad when it comes to choosing a timing source for the system clock - instead of using the HPET high resolution timer source or other frequency throttling independing sources, it just goes ahead in a very braindead manner and chooses things like the TSC, the time stamp counter that skews with your frequency.

I’m sorry, there doesn’t seem to be any solution (except for “hoping that it chooses a good time source on another circumstance” or “waiting for a bugfix”).

Remember: the RTC, which is the Real Time Clock that is beating inside your TR, with a battery, even when it’s turned off and the System Clock are two different things! Your Windows System Clock just gets synchronized withit at bootup and during shutdown. The clock in your Real Time Clock should be fine.

So, no, your $2k computer shouldn’t have any problem in keeping a good time, it’s just Windows.

I have Linux based systems that don’t keep time either.

Erik

[quote author=“tifosiv122”][quote author=“FrodoID”]So, no, your $2k computer shouldn’t have any problem in keeping a good time, it’s just Windows.

I have Linux based systems that don’t keep time either.

Because Linux Systems before kernel 2.6.something also were considerably bad in chosing the time source automatically.

But you could always choose the time source manually.