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win 98 clock

My win98 clock dosnt keep the correct time....about every week it winds up being an hour ahead or an hour behind.  Any body know why and how to fixit?
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Sounds like the battery for your bios is going. Windows doesn't actually keep time on the pc, it simply displays it and allows it to be set.
If its a fairly old PC, get a new battery, otherwise complain like shite to who ever supplied it.

Other than this the only other problems could be a faulty or cheap bios, or possibly a virus.

Try a virus check to be on the safe side.
anything on daylight saving times?? are you using DST by any chance??
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The times on PC clocks are never accurate, one way to fix it (extra to the other, previous answers) is to download a free program that you can set to correct the time on the machine every time you connect to the internet or whenever you want it to.

It talks to a time server on the internet that uses GPS to get an accurate time, which then modifies your PC time.

Although this will not completly solve your problem, its a way to get the problem temporarily solved until a more perminate solution is found.
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thanks the article you supplied a link to help me out a bunch.