# My PC clock: Do I have a problem?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 6, 2000, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-pc-clock-do-i-have-a-problem/18726 "2000-05-06T01:51:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2000, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-pc-clock-do-i-have-a-problem/18726/21 "2000-05-08T14:59:15Z")

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‘all the BIOS settings stored in your computer used to be stored in a CMOS memory.’  
The windows clock is a software one & if the correct time is diplayed when you restart the computer, then you need to update the Windoz timing files.

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**Author:** ![Dr\_Claw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@Dr\_Claw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Claw)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2000, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-pc-clock-do-i-have-a-problem/18726/22 "2000-05-25T15:08:30Z")

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I’ve also had this problem, and here is the URL to the page that tells what Microsoft has to say about it:

[http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q189/7/06.ASP](http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q189/7/06.ASP)

It basically says that it could be a third-party anti-virus program or a screen saver causing the problem. I knew it couldn’t be the lithium battery in my case, because it was happening both at home and on my brand-new work computer. I think Norton AntiVirus is the culprit in my case, but I figured it would be better to have a slow clock than a virus-infected computer, so I decided to keep Norton running and just deal with it.

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