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Hey, I've got a problem. Inside windows my time is always about 5 mins late. If I enter the time manually after restarting the time is 5 min behind if I set the time zone the time is always about 15 too late. I don't know why this keeps happening thank you for your answers.

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Check the time setting in your BIOS. 

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Replace your CMOS battery.

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2 minutes ago, Enderman said:

Replace your CMOS battery.

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Are you sure it's the battery? The motherboard is not that old it's from September last year.

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1 minute ago, GermanPCBuilder said:

Are you sure it's the battery? The motherboard is not that old it's from September last year.

That's what I would try, sometimes batteries are just bad.

Other than that, you can clean install windows and hope that fixes it, but that's harder than replacing the battery so maybe try the battery first?

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1 minute ago, Enderman said:

That's what I would try, sometimes batteries are just bad.

Other than that, you can clean install windows and hope that fixes it, but that's harder than replacing the battery so maybe try the battery first?

Ok then I will try the battery and if that doesn't work I just won't do anything about it because for me it's not worth to bother with the windows installation.

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I'm pretty sure a bad battery would also erase your CMOS settings. If it can't keep an RTC up, I have no confidence it can keep any of the CMOS settings up either.

 

I would guess whoever your computer is sourcing the time from is incorrect. You can select which time keeping server to sync up with by:

  • Click on the date/time in the task bar
  • Go to "Change Date and Time settings..."
  • Select the "Internet time" tab
  • Click on the "Change settings..." button
  • Make sure "Synchronize with an internet time server is checked"
  • Select another server, then click "Update"

Alternatively you could not sync to a time server. However your clock is going to drift, but it's probably a few seconds per year.

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are you loosing time on a proper reboot or are you loosing time after using suspend/hibernate?

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