Clock/Time keeps Changing.

choille

Hi All - The clock/time keeps changing on my computer - it goes back to 1st Jan 2002. I keep going into the control panel & changing it back to the right time, but each time I go back to use my PC it's changed the date & time back to Jan 2002.
My emails go out with the wrong date unless I've gone through the changing the date & time thing.

I can't work out how to fix this permanently - any suggestions.
Also when sending attachments there's hyroglths/symbols appear on the top & bottom of my text. I try deleting them, but they reappear when I send them.

I did a virus check & my pc seems virus free.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks beforehand.

Oneday77

CMOS button sized battery on your motherboard probably wants changed.

4743hudsonj

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000239.htm

A trip to poundland for the battery

(you want a number like CR2032 or similar as this is the easiest universal part number to identify)

choille

Thanks for that, I'll give that a try.

Cheers - I hope it's that & nothing more serious.

aliEnRIK

choille wrote: »

Thanks for that, I'll give that a try.

Cheers - I hope it's that & nothing more serious.

Its the battery. But you might find you need to change some BIOS settings once the new ones in

choille

Cheers - I'll get one when we go into town. It's really been annoying & puzzling me.
Thing is my OH who has his own email account on this PC doesn't experience this problem. Does that tie in with it being only a dud battery?
Sorry to be a pest as I'm not very techie - It's all a bit like the black arts to me.

closed

Does he use it as much as you, the clock normally syncs with a time server, once per week, if you click on the clock icon, and then internet time, it tells you when this was last done - if that coincides with his last login, then that could explain why it works for him, but not for you.

You can alter the frequency of how often the sync happens by editing this key in regedit

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\TimeProviders\NtpClient\specialpollinterval

A setting of decimal 86400 would do it daily instead of weekly

aliEnRIK

choille wrote: »

Cheers - I'll get one when we go into town. It's really been annoying & puzzling me.
Thing is my OH who has his own email account on this PC doesn't experience this problem. Does that tie in with it being only a dud battery?
Sorry to be a pest as I'm not very techie - It's all a bit like the black arts to me.

Its possible you have a piece of software running that he doesnt? I had an ip blocker which blocked microsoft at one point which made the clock fail

choille

I use the Pc much more than OH.
If I don't change the date & time in the control panel, then my emails have the date 01 Jan 2002. My emails have that date on them & will sit at the bottom of receiver's inbox, often being missed.
I don't know if I'm running software that OH isn't.
As you can probably tell I don't know ziltch about PC's

closed

A new battery should resolve it (assuming the pc is a few years old?), but you could increase the time server sync frequency in the meantime, and check the sync is working by doing a manual sync.

espresso

choille wrote: »

I use the Pc much more than OH.
If I don't change the date & time in the control panel, then my emails have the date 01 Jan 2002. My emails have that date on them & will sit at the bottom of receiver's inbox, often being missed.
I don't know if I'm running software that OH isn't.
As you can probably tell I don't know ziltch about PC's

Do you both use an e-mail client? e.g. Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird etc.