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Currently I am working with both HP (telephone) and Microsoft (web) to figure out the problem.. Hp said that if they have the computer they would monitor the bios and check for time drift. They said that in the bios it only moves by minutes and not by seconds. This computer drifts most of the...

i'm struggling with incorrect time on a brand new notebook computer. Choosing any of the internet time settings allows an update to display exact time and then over time the time is progressively delayed to over one minute. Then at some point it some how resets to less than 5 seconds delay and...

An HP technician replaced: 1) motherboard 2) Intel chip 3) CMOS RTC battery After replacement and bios date/time update time was exact time. Then as the notebook was used the time was progressively delayed.......now its 2 minutes and 22.8 seconds behind. Any ideas on how to troubleshoot and fix?

update: The time is not that critical unless you attempt to make a trade in the markets and can't because the market closed on time with the computer displaying a minute or more time left before the close. The computer had its first blue screen over the weekend. A problem has been detected...

follow up: A HP technician replaced the CMOS battery in the ZBook 17 notebook or mobile workstation. It was not a pop in pop out. The battery was enclosed in plastic. There was a wire that ran from the plastic enclosure to the motherboard and attached with a female connector. The technician...

The time on the brand new notebook varies between 2 seconds and a little over one minute delayed by using the web site time.is. Today HP contacted me to let me know that they will schedule a technician to replace the RTC. Apparently this part is easy to expose by removing the back of the...

This is a brand new notebook (HP Z book 17 G2). The operating system is windows 7 professional x64. For approximately one and half months I have updated and reset the time using time.windows.com, nist.gov, nw.nist.gov, a.nist.gov, and b.nist.gov. All of the settings lead to delayed time. The...