Pete, Are you saying that the clock was once accurate, but is now inaccurate? I have never had that happen. I have owned my fair share of computers with off-tolerance crystals that kept lousy time, but they kept the same lousy time all their lives.
Have you changed your processor lately, or altered the BIOS setting of the PC to super-clock the CPU? That will cause wildly-inaccurate clock timing. My PC's clock is reasonably accurate, but to avoid any log-time problems I run the free utility from NIST for PC clock management. This program auto-magically synchronizes your PC clock to WWV at regular intervals (the interval set by you) You can download it from www.time.gov. -larry K8UT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pete Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <dx4win@mailman.qth.net> Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 10:03 AM Subject: [Dx4win] Clock error > Help -- the computer I use for TRLog and DX4WIN(a 200 MMX Pentium) has > started losing about 12 seconds an hour in its real-time clock -- for > example, I set it this morning from the Internet, and when I can back 3 > hours later it was 38 seconds slow. Is this indicative of battery > problems? The computer has been on throughout. I also wonder if perhaps > some software that is running on the system -- maybe in background -- could > be responsible. > > Any advice much appreciated. > > 73, Pete N4ZR > > _______________________________________________ > Dx4win mailing list > Dx4win@mailman.qth.net > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win >
