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Old 02-06-2007, 05:46 PM
gmv
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Real Time clock Question

Hello,

I have a Toshiba laptop which keeps terrible
time and I was just wondering if anyone has
successfully adjusted the RTC in a laptop
to keep better time. I understand these quartz
clocks usually use an oscillator tuned to
32768Hz and if properly adjusted they keep pretty
good time but the trouble is that few if any of
the companies turning out these clocks actually
adjust them.

At the moment i set my clock fast by 6 seconds and
allow it to drift across zero for 6 additional
seconds this gives me 54 hours of usable RTC time.
But I would very much like to reduce that error
from its current loss of 1 second every 4.5
hours of elapsed time UTC.
I guess the oscillator needs to be speeded up
somehow.


The laptop of which I speak is a
Toshiba Satellite 205CDS.


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Regards;
gmv



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