Hi folks, I've got this very very bizarre problem with my desktop computer that I built about a few years ago, hoping I can maybe get some help here. I've tried asking around a few other places, but can't seem to locate any real help. It's been a persistant problem that I've always had with this computer, but just recently it's causing my troubles and I'm looking to fix it.
I don't know if the specs of my pc are really important for this problem, but I'll list them anyways:
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 2.13 ghz
Mobo: Asus P5N32-E SLI
Ram: 4 gigs, OCZ DDR2 800
Hard Drive: 320g western digital sata
Video Card: EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS
Alright well that's the basic stuff most people ask for, now here's the details of the problem:
Everything runs too quickly on this computer. What do I mean by "too quickly"? I've installed a few Stopwatch programs on my computer to test this, against a physical stopwatch that I hold in my hand. I can start the timer on the computer, and the timer in my hand at the same time (give or take a few hundredths of a second, human error) and the PC stopwatch program will slowly begin to pull ahead of the hand held stopwatches. The discrepency becomes more noticeable the longer the stopwatches are allowed to run. The PC stopwatch creeps ahead by a minute, then two, then eventually it is just way off.
To make sure that my handheld stopwatch was not too slow, for some reason, I installed the SAME stopwatch programs on my laptop, and again, ran them against the PC stopwatch programs. Same result. After about 30 minutes, the timer program on my PC would read somewhere around 35 minutes, sometimes more sometimes less, but always quite a bit ahead of the laptop timers.
The time when this problem mainly comes up when I'm playing online games. My characters run faster than everyone else's. If I run side by side with another player on an online game, I will slowly but surely pass them up, because I run faster than I should. Now, some might think this is a nice advantage (I surely did), but recently when trying to play a newer online game, the servers are detecting that I'm running too quickly. This causes my characters to forcibly teleport back to where they would be if they were moving at normal speed, and makes the game basically unplayable for me. There's also risks of me being banned because they may think I'm using some sort of speed exploit.
Well, that's the basic summary of my problem. It seems like somehow, somewhere in my system, everything is being ran too quickly! Seconds are counted down too quickly, animations in games are run too quickly, etc.
Any help is GREATLY appreciated. The only advice I've received so far was that I may have a defective CPU or something, and it's somehow causing things to run too fast. I really have no idea, so anything you throw at me is welcomed.
I don't know if the specs of my pc are really important for this problem, but I'll list them anyways:
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 2.13 ghz
Mobo: Asus P5N32-E SLI
Ram: 4 gigs, OCZ DDR2 800
Hard Drive: 320g western digital sata
Video Card: EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS
Alright well that's the basic stuff most people ask for, now here's the details of the problem:
Everything runs too quickly on this computer. What do I mean by "too quickly"? I've installed a few Stopwatch programs on my computer to test this, against a physical stopwatch that I hold in my hand. I can start the timer on the computer, and the timer in my hand at the same time (give or take a few hundredths of a second, human error) and the PC stopwatch program will slowly begin to pull ahead of the hand held stopwatches. The discrepency becomes more noticeable the longer the stopwatches are allowed to run. The PC stopwatch creeps ahead by a minute, then two, then eventually it is just way off.
To make sure that my handheld stopwatch was not too slow, for some reason, I installed the SAME stopwatch programs on my laptop, and again, ran them against the PC stopwatch programs. Same result. After about 30 minutes, the timer program on my PC would read somewhere around 35 minutes, sometimes more sometimes less, but always quite a bit ahead of the laptop timers.
The time when this problem mainly comes up when I'm playing online games. My characters run faster than everyone else's. If I run side by side with another player on an online game, I will slowly but surely pass them up, because I run faster than I should. Now, some might think this is a nice advantage (I surely did), but recently when trying to play a newer online game, the servers are detecting that I'm running too quickly. This causes my characters to forcibly teleport back to where they would be if they were moving at normal speed, and makes the game basically unplayable for me. There's also risks of me being banned because they may think I'm using some sort of speed exploit.
Well, that's the basic summary of my problem. It seems like somehow, somewhere in my system, everything is being ran too quickly! Seconds are counted down too quickly, animations in games are run too quickly, etc.
Any help is GREATLY appreciated. The only advice I've received so far was that I may have a defective CPU or something, and it's somehow causing things to run too fast. I really have no idea, so anything you throw at me is welcomed.