I was asked to repair a dead chop box PC for an associate and it turns out a heat sink on the north bridge was not fastened properly and now I know it is dead for sure.  She asked me to pick up an off lease IBM on the cheap so I did – complete with Windows XP “Professional”.  So as Microsoft suggests, I spent a few hours updating the system only to see a Windows Genuine validation error – bear in mind this is the OS that shipped with this unit.

I have not worked with Windows in a while however I thought I could get this thing rolling quickly and out the door – unfortunately now I have to resolve another issue, see screenshot below.

What the hell? Windows can not connect to the Time Server because my Date is not set properly!  The whole reason for connecting to the damn time server is to automatically adjust the time… guhh.

I could be wrong, maybe time servers only adjust time and not date but this is still very annoying.

At this point I have had it with this software.  It is just bad, the world needs to stop using it.