Re: Computer time way wrong

["Nick" <njmyer@xxxxxxx>]

just to clarify it's an nforce-2 motehrboard

the problem is the hardware clock id always wrong... but the computer is
almost never off
the motherboard is just voer a year old (I believe, I haven't been "gung
hoe" about my computers since sophmore year)

the issue is that the clock wanders tward 5+ minutes off then gets rest by
time update... no other computer seems to do it and it didnt happen last
year... it's weird... I did try to increase the update timeing, but windows
doesnt really allow that... I could look for a 3rd party prog, but i was
hoping it was somehting I overlooked... I'll check the battery with a
multimeter, but I think it's fine...

-nick
----- Original Message -----
From: "David O Torrey" <tj@xxxxxxx>
To: <lug-l@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: Computer time way wrong


> There is another odd-ball possibility here.  I run remote systems that
> do imaging, and they require the cron'd ntpdate solution (and the irony
> of using 'cron' to run 'ntpdate' does not escape me :).  Turns out the
> drivers for the camera suspend interrupts during image downloading.  Not
> a major problem for the OS, but the system clock depends on interrupts
> for timing.  NTP gives up once the skew is beyond several seconds, so
> the clock would drift horribly.
>
> It's possible your tuner card is doing something similar.  A test for
> that condition would be to not record for several days and see if the
> clock still drifts the same.  Otherwise, I don't know what else you can
> do.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
> On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 16:24 -0500, Steven Isaacson wrote:
> > Of course you aren't running Ubuntu so this won't be much help, but I
> > had the same problem with box that was running mythtv. I installed
> > ntpd and even though it was running it wasn't adjusting the clock to
> > correct for the skew. So eventually I just went the horrible hackish
> > way of running ntpdate from a cron job every half hour or so.
> >
> > You could do something similar on windows and install some external
> > NTP program which updates the time at a set interval. Though I have
> > never seen XP's time sync not work. Looks like my system is updating
> > every 8 hours. What does the date and time properties tell you about
> > the last sync time?
> >
> > -steve
> >
>
> --
> David O Torrey <tj@xxxxxxx>
> Michigan Technological University
>