For reasons unknown every few day the clock on my PC goes daft.
The time/date alter to 23:02 on December 31st 1999.
Now this is easy enough to correct but why is it doing this?
Basically it has to be the battery or the clock chip. If your PC is old it’s the battery, if new more likely it’s the chip.
Hmm, might be your CMOS battery if it’s old, though often the BIOS would warn you with a checksum error, read error, or battery failure. In lieu of this, see what a HijackThis log throws up.
As my PC is about 7-8 years old then I guess it’s the battery altho’ I’ve not had any warnings.
Thanks for info
That was happening to me for a while. I double clicked on the time to bring up the date and time properties, selected the internet time tab and selected ‘Automatically synchronize with internet time server’ (time.windows.com). That did the trick (for now).
What model is your computer?
There’s no battery monitor for this battery. Some PCs will tell you that the settings have been cleared if the battery dies. Others won’t.
It’s PC gone mad!
It’s worse than that, look at the date it changes to!
This is Y2K, man! It’s back! Run for your lives!
You people come up with some weird and complex explanations. Obviously, it’s a time travel issue.
Medion.
@ mack done that makes no difference, stills act the goat
Hijackthislog?
Wassat then?
HijackThis is a utility from TrendMicro. You can download it for free from various places off of the net. It’s a tool that is used to locate any strange tasks that might be mucking up your computer, typically something like a browser hijacker (hence the name of the program).
It is possible (though not likely, IMHO) that you’ve got some oddball bit of malware starting up that is interfering with the PC clock when it gets its time during startup. If so, you’d be able to see this task in the log file that HijackThis creates.
ETA: more info here:
What’s the model number?