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clock issue
Name: jdstone Date: October 5, 2004 at 13:30:54 Pacific OS: Windows XP SP1 CPU/Ram: Athlon 2400/1 gig
Comment:
All of sudden, my clock is not working properly. It works fine until the system is left running for a while, and the screen saver comes on. Apparently, when the screen saver activates, the clock is frozen in time until the system is activated again. For example, I quit using the system at 12:40 today, the screen saver kicked in ten minutes later. When I sat down to use the system at 4:10, the clock had stopped at 12:50. As long as the system is being used, the clock works fine. I just put a new litihium battery in to make sure there was nothing wrong with that. Any ideas as to what would cause this?
Name: barelysane Date: October 5, 2004 at 14:03:31 Pacific
Reply:
Have you changed your screen saver? If not have you tried changing it to see if it has any effect?
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Response Number 2
Name: jdstone Date: October 6, 2004 at 14:57:12 Pacific
Reply:
yeah...disabled the screen saver and discovered it is also stopping when i play a game. if i the taskbar is visible, the clock seems to run ok...VERY weird... scanned for viruses, spyware, etc., and nothing! HELLLLLLP!!!!!
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