Need Help With Xp Pro/ Clock Year Issue

[Mïcrösöül°V³]

about 10 minutes ago, i was just tooling around the internet, when my PC just rebooted. After it loaded up, I moused over the clock in the lower right corner, and it said "Sunday, August 8, 9999".......I knew to look there because I have been having this problem for some time now, although I thought it was gone, since I have recently Ghosted my PC back to an earlier time. Now, you cant even manually change the year to 9999 cuz it dont go that high?! I have also seen it change to year 1981, 1970, and 1960 or something, but 9999 is the one i see the most, and as you all know, having the wrong year cause all sorts of screw ups. Has anyone ever heard of this before? Cuz i am at a total loss. This issue seems to random, so i cant narrow it down to any particular program or process. :angry: :( I searched the net for a clue, and came up with nothing. Hopefully you guys may be able to help. Thanks all. :flowers:

Oh, and my BIOS is showing the correct time and year.
ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe mobo P4 3.0ghz

[Chewie]

Have you tried an online virus scan? IF you have and it turned up nothing, get a second opinion from another service just to make sure; there's a pinned topic that links to several.

[Ariel_001]

It sounds like a hardware problem.. Maybe CMOS bat is dieing? Something is over heating?

[Chewie]

Originally posted by Ariel_001@8 August 2004 - 18:01
It sounds like a hardware problem.. Maybe CMOS bat is dieing? Something is over heating?
Does it? Why is the time correct in BIOS then?

[Chewie]

Just had another thought, you haven't got a third-party clock synch program running have you? I did hear a few years ago that one of those was booby-trapped and if a crack or illegal serial was used it'd randomly change the system time.

Have you tried changing the time server that XP uses to update the clock time?

[Mïcrösöül°V³]

I could replace the battery just to be sure, and as for overheating, i would like to belive all is weel, as asus probe says all is fine, plus the 2 tornado fans blowing at 300mph, lol

[Mïcrösöül°V³]

yes, i did change the time server about 30 minutes ago to tock.usno.navy.mil and no, i have never used one of those time sync programs

[Ariel_001]

Originally posted by Mïcrösöül°V³@8 August 2004 - 14:15
yes, i did change the time server about 30 minutes ago to tock.usno.navy.mil and no, i have never used one of those time sync programs
Here is what I use

time.windows.com

http://img22.exs.cx/img22/8770/untitled356.jpg


It works very well. No problems B)

[firefox]

I would replace the CMOS battery, they are inexpensive and it will probably solve your problem.

[Mïcrösöül°V³]

Originally posted by firefox@8 August 2004 - 21:03
I would replace the CMOS battery, they are inexpensive and it will probably solve your problem.
ya know, you could be right cuz i didnt have this problem untill i had this new mobo for about 3 months, then it started. Ill replace the battery. thanks all.

[Chewie]

I wouldn't think that changing the battery would make a difference if the time is right in BIOS but is fucked up in Windows. The battery is there to keep the time and BIOS settings when there's no power to the board.

[TheRealDave]

Spyware maybe? Try adaware and S&D see if they report anything. :)