I am almost certain it's not the battery. If my machine stays off for a few days (rare occurance) there is no time loss. You would expect a gradual, metered time loss if it were the battery.

>>I am noticing that the clock on my PC is losing, on occasion, time. Some days it doesn't. Some days it does. There seems to be no rhyme or reason or mathematic rule to this loss of time. I am running Win98SE, VFP6 SP3, IE5, OE5, and not much else on a regular basis. Any ideas?
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>Are you talking big time, or small time? I have a time leak too, with same SW, and it isn't the battery, I don't *think*, anyway - the machine is less than a year old. The loss is small, about 2 or 3 minutes a month, I'd guess, and fairly consistent since I got the machine (Compaq). Haven't really kept track of whether it loses it in one day, or over a period, but I do know that I have to reset it every month or so when I notice it's lost a few minutes. It occurred before 98SE, so I know that's not the problem.
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>Would be interested in a diagnosis & solution...