Anti-Babysit-Guide for the Windows Clock
Hey Bursters,
if you mining with a Windows machine, you must have your clock synchronized before mining. The problem is, that after some hours especially with heavy load, the windows clock isn't accurate anymore. I don't know where's the limit until you lose your Bursts but I don't want to babysit my clock and refresh it twice a day by hand.
Here is my guide to get rid of this problem:
Go to your Windows clock -> Settings -> Internet time -> and Change the Internet time server to "time.nist.gov" and refresh.
(time.nist.gov seems to be the most accurate)
Save the changes.
Now it is syncronized, but won't refresh itself the next 100 hours (!). This could be a miner's nightmare
Now click on the Windows Start button and type in the search line "regedit". Open in the registry (regedit.exe) and go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\w32time\Config\UpdateInterval
There is the registry value in seconds of the refresh. Double-click on that and change the Basis from hexadecimal to decimal and change the value of 320000 (seconds) to a lower number:
For example 3 hour refresh rate are "10800" seconds.
Click "OK" and don't care about time-synchro anymore.
Thank you for listening.
BURST-J9F9-6LSJ-UFRY-EL5ZT