Windows Time Running fast, cant seem to slow it down again.

For some odd reason my system time has started to run fast, about 5sec to fast every minute. Started some days ago, and Iv tried lots of things, even did a fresh Windows SP2 Install.
Read some place on the web that it might be the bios battery thats bad, so I changed that but without any luck.
Iv checked that nothing else is interfering with the RPC IRQ 8.
Iv checked the bios clock and theres nothing wrong, its when it inters windows XP things starte to go wrong.
Iv tried to underclock my cpu, that didnt change anything either.
Im running out of ideas here, hope theres some one out there that might be able to help me, because it annoys the hell out of me.
Thanks in advance
Looking forward to your reply's
//Keba - System specs is in the signature

Great description!
After a BIOS update APIC - the interrupt control - is taken over by BIOS. It should normally be handled by Windows. Windows does a lot of its system managing through this, to make priorities etc.
Updating BIOS is necessary only when a problem is said to be fixed this way, and it is recommended to do a repair reinstall of Windows afterwards. Maybe other things and question marks will straighten out as well.
One should not update BIOS as one would update the antivirus program, as often as possible.

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