Slow Windows Clock on Battery
Posted by admin on Jun 10th, 2007
HelloI recently purchased a new notebook a Toshiba A135, and I've noticed that on battery, the windows clock loses time in the neighborhood of 20 seconds per minute. the CMOS battery is just fine I don't lose any time while inside the BIOS, nor do I lose time while the notebook is off. The time loss ONLY happens when the notebook is on battery power. I checked my power management settings in Vista, saw that the processor was underclocked by half while on battery, but I still lost the same amount of time when I changed the processor power to 100%.I also tried the whole net stop w32time w32tm /unregister w32tm /register net start w32time thing, but I'm still losing time after that. Downloading a third party atomic clock synchronizer is not an option for me, as I am not always on WiFi, and therefore will not always have correct time.Does anyone know of a solution to this problem? Any help would be appreciated.Thanks
Jun 14th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
Thomas Peter v B "Taevis" wrote: Clarification: does anything else run slowly? If you have assigned SOUNDS to different commands (minimize/maximize open windows, for example), do the sounds become distorted (ex.: slow)? Do you ever get a "system hang"?
Jun 19th, 2007 at 04:54 am
"Taevis" When the clock slows down in Windows, is the CMOS time affected or is the time correct again after a reboot? If it is correct, there's some software hogging the interrupts to update the time.Tom Lake
Jun 24th, 2007 at 12:22 am
Same problem with a HP dv8288EA. The clock slows down. When hibernating or in sleep mode it will stop completely. This problem did nog occcure while running Windows XP pro or windows 2003.Any idea would be appreciated.Ad
Jun 25th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Same here. I have a Dell Inspiron 1501 and the time seems to get behind even when on AC power. My laptop came preinstalled with Vista."AG" wrote: