Anyone know why a computer clock would run fast?

[stereoeggs]

Hi, guys....

I've had several computers in my life and never run into this: For the past week or so, my 7-yr-old (WinXP with service pack 3) HP Pavilion computer's time clock has been running fast, getting ahead of the actual time of day by about 1 extra hour every 24 hrs.

I'm wondering what might cause this, and, more importantly, what I can do to fix it--so that I don't have to keep re-setting the time shown on my monitor, so that files have the correct time-date stamp, etc.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[smorizio]

the mb clock chip is starting to go. there not much you can do other swap out the mb. you can try and see if there a newer bios update and new cmos battery. other then that there may be a 3 party program that will reset the clock time when you log onto the internet.