Pete, The way you can tell if it's software bogging down the system vs. hardware/battery is this: Just before turning off the computer for the night, update the clock. Next day, first thing when you turn it on, check the time. Is it accurate? If so, it's not the battery.
There are multiple clocks in the computer. The "main" clock is hardware. The software clock accesses this info when you first turn the computer on. Windows (on the task bar) and most software then access one of the software clocks. One of my computers has this problem, where some software bogs down the clock and it can be off by minutes in a matter of hours. My solution was to use one of the Internet time setting programs (Tardis, etc.) and have it reset the clock every 15 minutes. If you are using WinXP, the Internet polling of the time signal is built in and I believe defaults to every 3 hours. There are ways to make this more frequent, though there's no setting within XP. You have to use an external program that changes a registry setting (no, I don't know what it is, offhand). 73, Barry W2UP On 25 Oct 2002 at 10:03, Pete Smith wrote: > 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 -- Barry Kutner, W2UP Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newtown, PA Frankford Radio Club
