Help Probelms with System Time/Date (Toshiba-LAPTOP)?

Question

Hi,

I have a TOSHIBA LAPTOP (Satellite L10). I was having some power problems with it, sent it back to the place frm where I bought it and they changed the system board.

Now everything is working Fine, except system time and date. System time is not correct. Whenever I set the system time, after half an hour / hour, it shows wrong time & it keeps on moving very slow & most of the times it show several hours late w.r.t original time.

I updated the BIOS, tryed new installation (Windows XP Professional), but nothing seems to be working. What should I do ???

Answer 1

Check the manual and see if the motherboard has a battery for keeping the time/date. This battery is usually the cause of date/time problems of this nature.

Answer 2

Open up command prompt, it should look like this:

C:>

When you see this, type the following:

C:>time [Hit enter]

You will see the system time:

HH:MM:SS (Hours Minutes & Seconds)

It will ask if you want to change the time, just type in the correct time and then OK.

Again from the Prompt:

C:>date [Hit Enter]
C:>MM:DD:YY [Month day and year will be shown]

If you need to make changes then do so and click YES or OK.

Then turn your machine off and back on and then click on the system tray clock and set that as well.

You also have the ability to change the time and date in the BIOS look at your manual and see how to enter it. (Could be F1, F4, DEL etc) you will see the system time and you can just adjust it and then do a F10 to save the settings.

Hope that helped?