security certificate error

pc-medic · Jan 25, 2015

To start, I'm running Win7 Pro SP1 32-bit. Two months ago my system started advancing the system date by days, then months, and finally years. I replaced the mobo battery and updated the mobo BIOS to current. However, at one point without checking/correcting the system date, I used a browser. [I use Firefox, Chrome and IE and all get cert errors now.] The date had advanced to 2024. I suspect that all prior certs were deleted, replaced with far future ones. I tried to pull the certs from another Win7 system, which worked for about 10 minutes.

Any remedies to suggest?

Ken

tigsounds · Jan 26, 2015

I dunno. ask in the Win 7 forum, they know all that windows 7 stuff.

pc-medic · Jan 31, 2015

tigsounds: Thanks for taking some time to make a suggestion. Since security certificates are used throughout Internet browsing, focusing on just one particular Windows version would possibly limit any interaction producing a useful suggestion.

tigsounds · Feb 1, 2015

Touche, Ok, first of all, the system clock must be somewhat factual. OP has clock issues which makes security certs red-flag the certificates as not valid.

Here's an XP remedy of sorts...

Double-click the clock in the system tray.
Click the "Internet Time" tab.
Check the "Automatically synchronize with an Internet time server"
Click the Server drop-down box and select "time.windows.com"
Click "Update Now"
Click Apply then Ok.

Go back to a site requiring security certificates.

When your clock messes up, go back here and click the update now button again.

pc-medic · Feb 2, 2015

Thanks for the suggestion. The clock was already set to synch with time.windows.com, and, while it failed when I told it to "update now", it indicated it had already synch'd a minute earlier.

BTW, the clock has stayed accurate for over a month, since updating the mobo BIOS and replacing the mobo battery.

Do you have any other suggestions?

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