Wierd problem with my computer's clock

[Darksider]

Every once and a while, I find my computer's clock is off.

Sometimes it's way off, thinking it's the year 2045 or something.

I have no idea what's causing this.

can anyone help me out?

[Starglider]

Every once and a while, I find my computer's clock is off.

Sometimes it's way off, thinking it's the year 2045 or something.

I have no idea what's causing this.

can anyone help me out?

How old is your computer? Most motherboards use a lithium battery to power the real time clock and yours may have expired.

[Maxentius]

That's probably what it is. My laptop is getting close to the eight year mark, and the clock is lagging behind. I reset it every time I notice it, but the first time I figured it out, the time was off by a cool ten minutes.

Does it give you an error message if you try and resync?

[phongn]

No.

[General Zod]

Check for spyware. The last time one of my comps had this issue it turned out to be some sort of "clock sync" spyware thing that was screwing up my settings.

[Darksider]

Does it give you an error message if you try and resync?

yes.

and my comp is not that old.

barely even a year.

[ANGELUS]

I had that battery issue too, but usually it was just a couple of days behind because it was the time when I turned it off. Clock going forward would have nothing to do with this.

This seems more like spyware as Zod mentioned, or perhaps a virus messing with your clock settings.

[Darksider]

I just ran an updated Ad-aware scan and HOLY SHIT!

22 critical objects detected and the scan isn't even finished.

I don't know why the hell I pay norton 30 bucks a year for updates if the regular scans I run aren't even going to detect anything.....

[phongn]

Ad-Aware and Spybot typically look for different things than antivirus programs do.

[Darksider]

Ad-Aware and Spybot typically look for different things than antivirus programs do.

Not that it helped anyways since they were all tracking cookies. I still can't auto-sync my clock.

Spybot, Add-aware, and norton are all coming up empty handed.

Is there any possibility this could just be a glitch or error instead of a virus?

[General Zod]

Ad-Aware and Spybot typically look for different things than antivirus programs do.

Not that it helped anyways since they were all tracking cookies. I still can't auto-sync my clock.

Spybot, Add-aware, and norton are all coming up empty handed.

Is there any possibility this could just be a glitch or error instead of a virus?

Have you installed any sort of third-party synchronization software lately?

[Darksider]

Have you installed any sort of third-party synchronization software lately?

Nothing that I know of.

Is it possible that my firewalls (via norton and ad-watch) are blocking any re-synch?

[Darksider]

ok, here's something interesting, neither of the internet time servers i'm attempting to sync with appear to be operational.

does anyone know where I can find one?

[RogueIce]

ok, here's something interesting, neither of the internet time servers i'm attempting to sync with appear to be operational.

does anyone know where I can find one?

This happened to me on my laptop a few times. And then for whatever reason it would resolve itself, as I'd go back and it'd say "time last synched on [whatever]".

I don't know why it did this. But I'd say give it a few days, don't mess with it, and then see if it'll synch itself (just go check it, don't try to manually synch it).

[phongn]

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net time /setsntp:pool.ntp.org

[Darksider]

does anyone know where I can find one?

This happened to me on my laptop a few times. And then for whatever reason it would resolve itself, as I'd go back and it'd say "time last synched on [whatever]".

I don't know why it did this. But I'd say give it a few days, don't mess with it, and then see if it'll synch itself (just go check it, don't try to manually synch it).

How often did it happen?

I just want to make sure it isn't some type of malicious program doing it. I know norton came up clean, but i'm kinda paranoid about comp security.

All it says in the sync window is "an error occurred when getting the status of the last synchronization. The RPC server is unavailable."