Reader Dan loves his Asus netbook–but not its clock. Every time he turns the machine off, it seems to lose a couple hours. But the minutes, he notes, remain accurate. There are a number of reasons a ...

Hardly anything inside a computer would seem to be more basic, or more necessary, than the processor “clock”—the little crystal oscillator whose rhythmic ticks ultimately regulate everything the ...

If your computer's clock is 10 minutes slow, you can manually change the time by opening the system clock and adjusting the time forward by 10 minutes. You can also have your computer automatically ...

At the heart of all computers is a clock, a dedicated timepiece ensuring that all of the parts of the computer are synchronized and can work together to execute the instructions that the computer ...

A subtle tweak to how RAM keeps time is paving the way for higher memory speeds. Here's what that means for you.

Is the clock on every computer system in your organization set to the correct time? If your answer is no, you’re not alone. According to a 2007 study by Florian Buchholz and Brett Tjaden, both ...

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SymmTime lets you synchronize your PC's internal clock to a time server over the Intern PC clocks are notorious for not keeping good time. SymmTime, a free Windows application from Symmetricom, lets ...

Surrounded by computer screens in a modern office, you may check your monitor instead of a wristwatch to verify the current time. However, an incorrectly set system clock can cause more problems than ...

For some reason the last week my computer clock has been fast. We sync our clocks during login but I don't hardly ever log out. Just to test it I synced my clock when I left on Friday and this morning ...

Remember the Turbo button? Ten years ago it was all the rage, sitting on the front of your PC dangerously close to the reset switch. Ostensibly there to switch between the original 4.77MHz PC clock ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. &#151 Amid rumors about a leveraged buyout, Cypress Semiconductor Corp. Wednesday (Oct. 11) said that it has spun out its PC clock business into a new and independent company. Under ...