Computer clock,

[clone63]

The computer's dial clock image goes through 30 seconds in a about 1 second, and minuets go by like nothing. Everything else operates at this speed too: the solitaire timer, the screen saver timer, even when I open the task manager the cpu usage is blur of numbers ranging from 20-80% and the scrolling graph of its log just flies by. It does this in safe mode too. This is Vista by the way. I am used to Xp, this is just the computer we have at work. It is not connected to the net so I do not believe it is a virus. The only 2 things I can think of but have not tried yet (as I am not at work) are the CMOS battery and someone gave me this command: Run-> cmd.exe
net stop w32time
w32tm.exe /unregister
w32tm.exe /register
net start w32time

Any help will be appreciated.

[clone63]

No one has any idea, AT ALL??

[YukonTrooper]

I dunno, dude. I'd check outside your window and make sure your house didn't land in Oz or get shifted into the Twilight Zone, because that's messed up.

[zoob]

Are you overclocked? My old Athlon XP 1600+ overclocked would sometimes forget 5 hours had passed. Had to back it down a bit and the time stopped going nuts.

[gingerbee]

never heard of this before sorry

[clone63]

Not overclocked, its a Sempron of some breed.

[cadaveca]

i got this from having a bad HDD plugged in. Something, hardware wise is making, the CMOS clock bug out. I had a "legit" SuperPi "World Record"...same issue, bugged timer.

[futures]

Originally Posted by clone63

No one has any idea, AT ALL??

Identify if you have timing issues in the BIOS or DOS.. If not then safe bet its the OS.

Try a system restore to an earlier state.

If its a work related system.. you should have a restore image handy :)

[grinder]

excellent suggestion futures!

an old win98 boot CD should do nicely. boot to prompt and type the time command once and a while to see if it's clocking properly.

[clone63]

Alright, thanks for the heads up. I actually have a 98 cd there, but I don't think there is a restore cd, its just a video store. Owner isn't perfectly computer literate. I go in in a few hours, I'll post how it goes.