[ntp:questions] Are these Windows XP clients beyond hope?

Brad Knowles brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Mon Sep 19 09:01:49 UTC 2005


At 4:07 AM +0100 2005-09-19, Neil Trotter wrote:

>  All machines are keeping good time except 2 of the windows XP clients at
>  one of the sites, and these are drifting wildly.  Since all the config
>  files are similar, and 2 other XP clients on the same network (with
>  identical config files) are staying sync'd, is this just a case of
>  hopelessly bad hardware clocks, or is there something else I can try?

	Check the hardware configuration of those machines.  They may 
have ACPI, APIC, or BIOS issues which might need to be resolved.  See 
<http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Support/TroubleshootingNTP>, especially 
the first two sections.

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