changing clock

[jayden-lee]

hi.

my computers clock keeps changing (I set the time and after a hour the time is out about 5 min and over night from 9pm to 7am it loses 6 hours eg set 9:00pm at 9:00pm then at 7:00am it says the time is 10:57pm:confused:) and I've check the bios battery and done a full reboot and reloaded my operating system and it did not fix it. my computer is not on the internet but I take it to the place I am at using the internet at to try get a program to fix the problem so the computer has ms updates offten but it does not help. is they a program i can download that will fix it?

 

Sorry if I’m hard to understand :confused:

[PseFrank]

Hi Jayden, and welcome to Extreme Tech Support - Free PC Help. When you say you've checked the Bios battery, do you mean you've renewed it?

[jayden-lee]

I checked the battery and it was flat so i put a new one in.

p.s. i don't have internet at my house so i only have acses every now and then

[Plastic Nev]

Hi Jayden,

the lack of an internet connection is a possibility, but also the new battery may not have been as new as it should be, it won't be the first time I have seen a so called new battery that in reality had been sat on a shelf in the shop for a few years, and had little life left in it. If possible, buy another from somewhere else and try again. Also, if a tester is available, a new battery should show a voltage of about 3.1 volts, anything less than 2.7 volts and the battery is on its way out.

if still a problem, it may be some odd fault in the main motherboard or BIOS, but I would expect other problems if that was the case.

Nev.

[jayden-lee]

ok i'll try getting a good battery that is 3.1v, but if that does not work what other advice can you give me. is there a program to help?

[Plastic Nev]

Not that I know of. You see in normal circumstances the clock is updated at regular intervals directly off the net, but if no connection, this cannot happen of course.

[jayden-lee]

I Fixed It!

what I did is found the battery is the right voltage so I took it out to see if it could coop with out but it did not change it so I sent it to my mums work for a camera system and at the time I forgot the problem about the clock and then I installed the camera program and now the problem is fixed (the computer was set up at home for the home camera system because things keep getting taken and it stoped when the cameras were put up and the laptop did not have enough memory and I always had to delete footage everyday so I got a computer.) I will post the name of the program a.s.a.p. for others just in case some else has the same problem.