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Old 1st October, 2006, 01:52 PM
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PC too quick?
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Strange problem here all the games I play seem to be going on fast forward any one ever heard of this?
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Old 1st October, 2006, 02:19 PM
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Like everything moving at a faster rate?
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Yes. There are numerous internal clocks to a pc. One of them is out of whack. It's generally due to a hardware issue.
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could my overclock be the cause?
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Old 1st October, 2006, 03:13 PM
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yep.
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ok turned of my overclock and it still seems to do it, it takes a while to happen but it still speeds up for no reason.
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Old 1st October, 2006, 04:05 PM
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The timer in windows is corrupted. I have had this happen both by cpu, and Seagate HDD.
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Old 1st October, 2006, 04:21 PM
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Is this a case of reinstalling windows to fix this?
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Old 1st October, 2006, 04:25 PM
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Possibly. look fora proggie called "timertest"...i have given it to a few members here..it will tell you if a timer is out-of-whack.
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ok cool will have a look
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ok seems be out of tune so will format drive and do a complete reinstall.
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Sounds appropriate. lol.
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I didn't know about this Timer in Windows, you learn something new everyday
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Link to Timertest?
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Cheers....how do i make it run? where is the download?
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Scott you could of atleast shown us the download link, sheesh!
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I've given it to Brad..maybe he still has it..i do not, and i have not been able to contact the source i got it from...SNQ, the writer of superPI.
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Hey, i don't know the site either, but makes it easier than typing something into Google.
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