Originally Posted by jephree

I found this manual:

ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/noteboo...%20(Vista).pdf

As to the CMOS battery only this:

CMOS battery bad Contact your dealer or an authorized service center.


Anyway on further review it is very rare that this battery would be "bad". They last for several years usually. In most cases they last the lifetime of a computer.

Does your BIOS time change? Do you get any errors on boot? CMOS errors?

Do you have Internet time synchronized in your Windows Time & date options?

that is very strange. well i thought it would be the battery.

i corrected the BIOS time and about 30 mins after the windows clock was wrong again. i get no errors on boot or any errors all together. i cant work out what it is.

internet time is synchronized and the windows clock only stays correct for about 30mins - 1hr max

thank you for all your assistance so far, much appreciated. hope i can resolve this

Try turning off the Internet Sync.

do you think it could be something other than the battery then? i did read somewhere that it probably wouldnt be the CMOS battery if it was happening when the laptop is on?? i have previously tried turning off the internet sync but will try again, thanks

If the CMOS battery were bad it would cause more problems then just time.

The BIOS settings would not hold. You would check sum errors on boot. Usually.

The battery only hold settings when the computer is off this is correct.

Check your Event Viewer via Administrative Tools.

Open the System as well as Application tabs and look for red X errors that coincide with your problem. Details here:

How to view and manage event logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP

Originally Posted by jephree

Check your Event Viewer via Administrative Tools.

Open the System as well as Application tabs and look for red X errors that coincide with your problem. Details here:

How to view and manage event logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP

thanks, i have done this and im seeing quite a few x's (errors) in the applications and system tabs. it doesnt really mean much to me though im afraid. can i sort out my problem with these? thanks

If you click on the error line you will find the:

Source

Event ID

Description

Post some of these. System is probably the most relevant. I'd guess quite a few will be WinTime.

thank you, i get it now lol. sorry for being a simpleton

ive noticed ive got alot of these in the systems tab:

W32time event 34

and 1 of these Dhcp 1002

and in the applications tab there was:

application hang (102) 1002
application error 1000

Go to start Run... and type or paste in this:

W32tm.exe

You should just see a command box flash.

Also do you run virus and malware scans etc.?

Thank you,run that and got the command flash command box. I run spyware, virus etc all the time. Do you think it could be a virus then?