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Re: [ECS] System Clock Paul Fitch Wed, 21 Jun 2000 20:30:46 -0400

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Nope. It's just running slow.  Not every day, not all the time.   Some mornings
I'll check and it's fine, others it off by several hours and minutes...

Bruce Prager wrote:

> paul, Does it just run slow or suddenly go off by an hour?
> I had a similar problem running ECS under Win98SE, but the time would
> suddenly be an hour or some hr multiple off.  Turns out it was the AntiVirus
> software.  Microsoft is aware of the problem but there solution is to turn
> off the AV software!
> Alos, if your jumping an hr and running windows, turn off the DST update and
> see if it goes away.
> Good Luck!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Fitch" <pfitchjr@bellsouth.net>
> To: "ECS Mailing List" <ecs-list@netbloc.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 10:25 PM
> Subject: [ECS] System Clock
>
> > Anybody have any problems with their system clock running slow?  I did
> > not have this problem before I started to use ECS.  Now, I'm not blaming
> > ECS, just trying to reduce the variables<g>.
> >
> > Could the bios battery be the bad guy here?  I mean the system is
> > running full time, so even if it was (and I don't think so since my bios
> > settings survive a reboot quite nicely), the clock shouldn't run slow
> > when the machine never gets turned off.
> >
> > I am running Seti@Home concurrently (just over 1100 hours so far).
> >
> >

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