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Bios keeps losing time, about 10 mins a week

Bios keeps losing time, about 10 mins a week
« on: September 02, 2011, 02:20:50 pm »
Hi,

As the above states this is a bit annoying rather than a major problem.  My motherboard is a GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3 and it is my second one as I had to RMA the first one because of a reboot cycle problem.  Anyhow this new one keeps losing time, I have replaced the CMOS battery but it still seems to lose time at about the same rate. I  updated the bios to version F8 a month or so ago but I cannot remember if it was doing the same on version F3.
Any ideas?

thanks

Will

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Re: Bios keeps losing time, about 10 mins a week
« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2011, 04:14:59 pm »
Hi

Well you have done the obvious thing and that is replace the battery. Is the battery you replaced it with a quality one ?

The only other thing that could have an effect was if the BIOS was faulty or corrupt. Try reflashing it with QFlash, preferably to an updated one.
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Re: Bios keeps losing time, about 10 mins a week
« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2011, 04:25:31 pm »
Hi,

thanks for the reply, I will try doing the bios again as you suggest

thanks

Will

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Re: Bios keeps losing time, about 10 mins a week
« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2011, 04:26:53 pm »
Well good luck with that and as I said use QFlash not @BIOS. Let us know how you get on please.
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Gigabyte X58A-UD7
i7 920
Dominators 1600 x6 12GB
6970 2GB
HX850
256GB SSD, Sam 1TB, WDB320GB
Blu-Ray
HAF 932

Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3
i7 3770K
Vengeance 1600 16GB
6950 2GB
HCP1200W
Revo Drive x2, 1.5TB WDB RAID0
16x DLRW
StrikeX S7
Full water cooling
3 x 27" Iiy

Re: Bios keeps losing time, about 10 mins a week
« Reply #4 on: September 06, 2011, 07:31:43 pm »
Hi,

I used  the QFlash to update the bios & installed the F9d beta version.
It now keeps time as it should and is running stable

thankyou again Dark Mantis

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Re: Bios keeps losing time, about 10 mins a week
« Reply #5 on: September 06, 2011, 08:12:17 pm »
You're very welcome Willyeckerslike just glad it worked out for you. ;D
Gigabyte X58A-UD7
i7 920
Dominators 1600 x6 12GB
6970 2GB
HX850
256GB SSD, Sam 1TB, WDB320GB
Blu-Ray
HAF 932

Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3
i7 3770K
Vengeance 1600 16GB
6950 2GB
HCP1200W
Revo Drive x2, 1.5TB WDB RAID0
16x DLRW
StrikeX S7
Full water cooling
3 x 27" Iiy