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System clock too fast
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Posted by: Santa
Hi, I'm having a slight problem with my system clock...it seems it's running a couple of seconds fast every hour. I've had the problem for quite some time now, but lately it seems to have become faster. Before, the clock was almost precisely 2 minutes wrong per day. Today I've had to synchronise with an internet time server twice already. How I notice the time difference? I'm playing several text-based online games, all tick-based - the time on these games are always correct, and my clock tends to be faster than them.
I'm running on a Windows XP SP1 computer (no, I've not changed to SP2 and I'm not going to), have Norton SystemWorks Premium 2005 installed, and of course various tweaking and anti-spyware software - none of which could possibly cause this problem as far as I know.
I've read a similar thread on the subject in this forum. I found it through a Google search. Thought I had the link copied, but it seems I lost it...anyways, the author of that thread eventually found the culprit to be Azureus - the Java-based BitTorrent client. I don't have that client installed; but I do have burst!, another BT client. And yes, I'm a heavy user of it. So I suspect it to be an error in the BT protocol; although I do find that strange...
Any thoughts? Possible solutions to my problem? It's getting on my nerves, yesterday I woke up too late without realizing it and was too late for class. My computer clock is my only clock except that on my cellphone =/
Edit: Bah, how could I forget my system specs...I fail to see how my sound card and video card are relevant...in fact I know my video card is not relevant, as I changed it some weeks ago and I had this problem before that. Anyway:
AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (2GHz) processor
512MB PC2100 DDR-SDRAM
Oh and for some reason I didn't include this...I've recently formatted. I had the problem before I did so, and I still have it. I still can't be sure it's a hardware error, tho - as I do still have much of the same software installed as I had prior to my formatting. burst!, for instance...
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