Does anyone know why my desk top, internal clock runs slow, and how to correct this?

Question

Its runs approximately 30 minutes slow a day...Drives me crazy!!!

Answer 1

The most likely suspect is your CMOS battery on your motherboard.
Especially if your system is more than 2 or 3 years old.

As they get older, they will typically cause the internal time on your BIOS to slow down until the battery dies...The next time you start up your system up, get into your BIOS and check the date time there... From there you can reset the correct time...then wait a week or so and check it agian....If the time is off, then you will need to replace the battery which is a fairly simple task...

BUT....Be aware of this...When you change the battery out, you WILL lose all the settings in the BIOS, such as date/time, onboard video/sound/modem/lan enabled/disabled, boot sequence, and ANY other custom settings you may have had on the motherboard.....

Also, be aware that if you don't change out the battery, eventually it die and you'll lose those settings anyway.....

AND...even if you re-adjust your time settings in Windows, and even go as far as synching up w/ internet time, every time you shut down your system, your Windows clock will default out to the time your BIOS has on it.....

Answer 2

Replace the little dime size battery on the motherboard if it is replaceable (some are soileered to the board, others are held in with a clip).

Answer 3

Are you using any software which synchronises your clock to an external source? If so, check that you have it set to the correct region.

Answer 4

You might want to try replacing the CMOS battery (I've seen failing CMOS batteries cause unusual problems).

Answer 5

low memory your os is running slow either need more RAM or to increase the size of the memory file