Hello Can someone please tell me why would the clock on my computer keeps going back about three hours every now and then. I have Norton 2006 antivirus and firewall updated every day. Also ATX-450 power supply running two hard drives, one Dvd Writer and one dvd player, also have a video card X1600pro agp, and usb hard drive, Hp printer usb, webcam usb, if someone has any idea why this is happening and how to stop it please post. Thank you in advance.

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You might try changing the motherboard battery. Just do a google search on how to, it is easy to do.

thanks for the suggestion i went throught the step posted by johnw and i'll let you know if the problem persist. thanks once again

i too think jabuck is right. if your clock is lagging behind, it does mean a failing cmos battery. try changing it. nb. ---------------- Reviewed list of free anonymous proxy's is here

"i went throught the step posted by johnw and i'll let you know if the problem persist" Yep, worth a try, before you spend some money.

System Clock Loses Time, it's not always the battery. http://www.itc.virginia.edu/desktop...