Date & time won't keep updated

Question

Windows 7 desktop computer-Refurbished. I have reset it many, many times and it just won't keep right time or date.

Answer 1

Hello,

Try to synchronize time with online server. Navigate to Control Panel > Clock, Language and Region > Date and time > Set the time and date > Internet time > Change settings > check Synchronize with an Internet time server and click Update now.

Let us know if this helps!

Answer 2

There is a small shiny coin cell battery in your computer.  It is almost always the standard 2032 .  This battery is recharged by your computer but has a life of about 5 to 8 years.  This battery keeps constant power to the memory that contains today’s date & time as well as a lot of the features in your system.  When it starts to fail, it commonly will start asking you to re-enter the date each time you startup.

For Notebook PCs it is likely going to be difficult to find the battery and will require a special part, 

requiring the services of a technician.

For Desktop computers, this is an easy change:

1. Unplug the power to your computer
2. Hold the ON button in for 7 seconds
3. Lay the computer on its side with the side where the wires are, down
4. Remove the side panel
5. Peer in there and you will see a shiny silver battery about 1/2″ in diameter.  It looks like a quarter.  That’s the battery
6. Go to just about any store and buy a 2032 coin cell battery.  They cost less than $5
7. Find a very tiny flat bladed screw driver (like one used for your eyeglasses)
8. Very carefully pry the battery loose.  It will pop up so be prepared to catch it.
9. Press the new battery in with the embossed markings on the up-side facing you.
10. Close the side panel
11. Turn it up vertical again
12. Start up the computer

Your computer will now need to have the date and time set but only once more — at least for this 5 years.  You need to enter the BIOS, which you do by pressing F2  immediately on startup  in most systems to get to the place where the date and time is stored.  Put in current time and date.  Close this the way it tells you to save what you did.  You may hear more whirring and chugging while some of the stuff is again set up.

Once Windows is up and running again

1. Click once on the time/date in the bottom right corner
2. Click on Change date and time settings
3. Click Internet time
4. Click change settings
5. Select time.b.nist.gov and click the Update button — this will synchronize the computer clock with the US govt time labs system
6. Close

Answer 3

And before you do any work on your computer buy yourself an anti static wrist strap.

Answer 4

Windows 7 desktop computer-Refurbished. I have reset it many, many times and it just won't keep right time or date.

You do not tell us what your Date/Time reverts to after you reset it to the correct ones.

If after you set the correct Date/Time and shut down then restart your machine the date/time reverts back to say the year 2007/2009 etc, you have a failed CMOS Battery in the Motherboard.

They cost about $5 and are easy to replace.

How to replace a CMOS Battery.

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000239.htm

How to Replace the Battery in Your PC

Cheers.