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Originally Posted by Dilbert1234567
Check the cmos battery, when they are low or dead, they can mess with the flow of time around your computer.
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Yep. A low battery can make the RTC lose its mind. Windows keeps its own version of time after checking with the RTC at boot, but verifies now and then with the RTC chip. If they don't match - software time is artificial and can be very inaccurate - Windows believes the chip. If the chip battery is low it'll start hearing noise as clock pulses and go nuts, and Windows will follow. Depends on the PC design as to how quickly and badly this happens.
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