Problem time goes back 1 hour after shutdown xp

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Hi Guys!

The time on the taskbar (bottom right of my screen) goes back 1 hour after shutdowning my computer in Windows xp evry time I reboot / shutdown. So if it was 7 oclock and shut down it would reboot and display as 6 oclock. If i turn my pc off after that, it would turn back on and display as 5 o clock.

In have checked that the settings are gmt.

I have also checked the bios settings.

Im thinking bad cmos chip... any suggestions?

 

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Yes the battery could be the cause of this.

what are the specs of your system (please included everything including make and model of psu).

if this is a pre built system the model number would suffice as I can get the specs.

Do you know how to do a cmos reset? this may solve things but if the battery is on it's way out then it won't.

Here's how you do it.

Power down the PC and unplug from the wall
Locate the battery on the motherboard and remove it for 20 minutes
whilst waiting for 20 minutes locate the jumper switches (next to the battery or just below it).
Move the jumper cap from 1 & 2 to 2 & 3 if no jumper cap is present then you need to short the switches by touching them together.
Press the on button to discarge any left over power
Then if you had one move the jumper cap back to 1 & 2
Replace the battery
Plug the system back up
Power on

This will reset the bios to defaults so you may have to press F1 at start or go into the bios to make any changes you had previously made.

I doubt this will work as it definetly sounds like a dying battery but it's worth a try.

 

Is it "about an hour" or "exactly an hour"? If exactly an hour, it's not the CMOS battery dying; it's your computer fetching an incorrect time from a time server.

 

exactly an hour!

I am on an windows server 2003 / xp domain environment and the other clients are not affected!

thanks.

 

Do you have the DST patch installed?

 

where can i get the dst patch?

I googled it but cannot find it.

cheers.

 

First two links when searching for dst patch, bro.

 

Stevefr - did you apply the patch? Did it work?

 

I applied the patch and it did not work.

 

fresh install, fixes everything

 

Have you tried linking it to a different time server. There are plenty out there. The above seems a little extream as a first approch.

 

I agree that a reinstall is extreme to fix a time issue... but the DST patch is a pretty easy deal, and won't hurt your system if you've already got it.

 

I believe a fresh install (re-maging the pc in my case) would be an extreme case.
this may have to be done though...

now i have another using experiecing the same problem so two in total so far on the network.

steve,

 

Have you checked all the same settings on the domain controller? How about the time server the DC is set to? Maybe your DC still has the wrong time (no DST patch?) and some of your pcs on the network are slow to pick up the changes from the DC.

As I recall the default time server for a 2K3 server is set to the MS time server. To change it you have to do some registry hacks.