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Vista clock not keeping time
Name: m.mansour Date: August 13, 2008 at 06:08:28 Pacific OS: Vista premium CPU/Ram: 1.83Ghz/3Gb Product: Toshiba
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My system clock time not keeping correct time, it leads the correct time with 7 minutes. i have laptop with 2 operating systems on it, vista and XP pro. i enabled auto correcting time server in the clock setting, also i typed in cmd the "time" command and enter the correct time, it works for several hours then changes. is there are any solution for this problem?
Name: m.mansour Date: August 13, 2008 at 10:27:27 Pacific
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both, also i noticed that happenes when i login to XP, then to vista the time changes.
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Response Number 3
Name: MULTY Date: August 13, 2008 at 10:52:57 Pacific
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Hi, I bought a new acer laptop and it came with vista. i want to get rid of vista. Now when i put the cd in for windows xp, it doesnt boot from cd for some reason. Those CDs's are bootable because i have tried on my other laptop which has XP and they work fine. And when i try to format my HD from cmd, it says access denies.I just type in format C:, if there is any other way on how to format my HD or to get rid of vista, please let me know, thank you.
MULTY
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Response Number 4
Name: m.mansour Date: August 13, 2008 at 11:23:10 Pacific
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hi Multy, what is exactly the problem error u have,is it "windows can not find hard disk"????????
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Response Number 5
Name: Sabertooth Date: August 13, 2008 at 18:05:42 Pacific
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m.mansour,
You're supposed to discourage MULTY for hijacking your thread--by asking him to open a separate thread for his PC problem--not encourage him.
Now back to your time synchronization issue. If you are indeed loosing time in both OS', you may need to replace your CMOS battery, have you looked into that yet?
Name: m.mansour Date: August 14, 2008 at 04:06:37 Pacific
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Sabertooth, yesterday i adjust the time from CMD, by using "time" command, i did not login XP, till now time is correct. i have symantec anti-virus 10.2 on both OS. also i noticed that when i login to XP, then back to Vista, the Symantec anti-virus is disable, im not sure if there are a relation between this and the time issue.
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Response Number 7
Name: Sabertooth Date: August 17, 2008 at 08:03:45 Pacific
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I moved away from Symantec for good several years ago & don't plan on going back, so I can't tell you if it is the culprit here. However, there are far too many AV alternatives these days that you can bet your money on - some even FREE.
Name: m.mansour Date: August 17, 2008 at 11:28:11 Pacific
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Sabertooth,
I noticed that when i login to XP the clock changes after 5 minutes.
so any solution for that?????
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Response Number 9
Name: Sabertooth Date: August 17, 2008 at 11:57:27 Pacific
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Go into your system BIOS, set the time there & make sure you save the settings before exiting. If that does not fix this, you may have a weak or dying CMOS battery & you would need to replace that.
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