I feel rather silly asking this, but here goes:

When I'm in softice, the clock stops also. So if I'm in softice for 5 minutes, when I come out of it then it will still be the same time on my pc clock as when I went into softice. Therefore I lose 5 minutes and have to re-set the clock again.

Is this meant to happen? I understand that breaking into softice stops everything, but I always thought the clock was a hardware thing and not software run. Am I missing an option or something?

I feel rather silly asking this, but here goes:

When I'm in softice, the clock stops also. So if I'm in softice for 5 minutes, when I come out of it then it will still be the same time on my pc clock as when I went into softice. Therefore I lose 5 minutes and have to re-set the clock again.


This question has been asked before. You may search back in the board, I even remember that some body upload a small app that would re-update the clock for you

Is this meant to happen? I understand that breaking into softice stops everything, but I always thought the clock was a hardware thing and not software run. Am I missing an option or something?

I do not think there is a sice option that prevents this problem. The CMOS clock keeps going, but the OS clock is updated by a hardware interrupt, which is not allowed while Sice is running.

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"But I searched the freaking board and found diddly-squat!", some might say.

Yes you're right, "Softice + clock" *should* find the thread Naides mentions, but the Search function isn't at 100% right now it seems and doesn't pick up the months-old thread. Sucks, so we'll have be even-handed towards search problems for a while.

Some people seem to have problems with this, others don't, it seems somewhat dependant on your system. You either ignore the problem, use it as a game and try to beat your old record of spending time in Softice (Woohoo, I lost 16 hours today!), reboot your system, or for fun write an app that reads the RTC real time CMOS clock via Ports 70-71 and updates the system clock.

Kayaker

Hi,

for those who have problems in finding the right thread, here is the thread:
http://www.woodmann.net/forum/showthread.php?threadid=2554

ZaiRoN

The tool TimeFix 1.01 (http://www.woodmann.net/protools/files/debuggers/timefix.zip) from the Protools site should supposedly fix this problem too. Didn't try it myself though.


dELTA

yeah softice always freezes ur system clock. maybe the fixer plugin works

years ago when I started reversing, I quickly learned that softice was like a quicksand where I fall in and never return. Time stops... Why is the sun rising? it's only 2 AM.........................OH.