Slow Windows Clock on Battery

Hey,

I've noticed that the windows taskbar clock loses quite a bit of time when my notebook (Toshiba Satellite A135, new) runs on battery. I did use Vista's power management utility to set all settings down when on battery, including cutting the processor's power in half.

I did test for this though, and ran the processor on full power on battery and still lost the same amount of time. I didn't think it would change anyway, because the clock being off usually sn't the processor's fault.

If this were a CMOS battery issue, wouldn't I be losing the same amount of time while plugged in anyway?

Currently, I lose about 20 seconds every minute while on battery, and I think I even lose time while plugged in, but significantly less.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Check your clock in the BIOS. If it isn't correct, enter the correct time and save the BIOS. Reboot and enter your BIOS again. Let it set for about 10 minutes, then recheck the clock. If the clock hasn't lost time I would look at Vista and perhaps a third party application (antivirus, etc) as the culprit.

 

Yep, seems the BIOS clock is running just fine. No noticeable loss while inside the BIOS on battery, though in Vista it began losing its 20 seconds per minute again. I uninstalled the McAfee trial that came with the computer (oh how I hate trials), and I'm currently using Avast... However, it lost the same amount of time before Avast was installed as well. Anything else that could be causing the loss?

 

If your laptop is brand new, I'd contact Toshiba about the problem. I haven't found anything via Google about Vista and clock problems. You should also look in the Toshiba board and ask your question there.

 

Kay, I finally got the problem fixed. I think it has to do with the "Search and Indexing" option on the Vista power plan... I basically switched from the Power Saver to the High Performance power plan, and then edited the options myself, like the dimming of the backlight and the downclocking of the processor. Afterwards, the main difference was Search and Indexing... Could it be that it includes keeping the clock up to date, in addition to keeping the indexes up to date?

Ah well, problem solved.