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Re: PC clock

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From: Molo
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 09:29
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Alex Cory wrote in message
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>Hi, Repert
>
>> The clock on one of my machines is running slow. The machine is on all
the
>> time and I have replaced the BIOS battery.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
>You have to ways to fix this problem:
>
>1) Buy a new motherboard (quite expensive and doesn't guarantee the
>result because the clock on the new board may be slow too).
>2) Download one of the time synchronization programs. This will keep
>your clock correct. I can recommend Chronograph
>(http://www.altrixsoft.com) There are freeware version and more
>powerful snatdard version. I have been using it for two years and it
>works good for me.
>
>Best regards,
>Alex Cory

Some crystal generated clock rate with tolerant, either 0.00000001%
tolerant, so get another piece of crystal instead.
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