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Title: GA-X79-UD3 with Intel i7-3930K not keeping time on Win 7 x64
Post by: slalom on November 29, 2019, 08:35:57 pm
Hi, this is my first post here
A couple of months ago I bought this used m/b & cpu

The PC has trouble keeping time on wndows 7. I tried the following


Any suggestions?
Title: Re: GA-X79-UD3 with Intel i7-3930K not keeping time on Win 7 x64
Post by: shadowsports on December 01, 2019, 04:35:11 pm
Quote from: slalom on November 29, 2019, 08:35:57 pm
Hi, this is my first post here
A couple of months ago I bought this used m/b & cpu

The PC has trouble keeping time on wndows 7. I tried the following

  • Changed the battery
  • Fresh install of Windows
  • Re-flashed the BIOS F20
  • changed time-servers

Any suggestions?

Greetings,
Failed CMOS battery and/or incorrect time zone settings in the OS are the most common causes of this behavior.
Title: Re: GA-X79-UD3 with Intel i7-3930K not keeping time on Win 7 x64
Post by: slalom on December 01, 2019, 04:42:33 pm
I DID change the battery, and time zone is correct
Title: Re: GA-X79-UD3 with Intel i7-3930K not keeping time on Win 7 x64
Post by: slalom on December 07, 2019, 10:21:26 pm
Anyone has any idea why this is happening?
Title: Re: GA-X79-UD3 with Intel i7-3930K not keeping time on Win 7 x64
Post by: shadowsports on December 08, 2019, 06:32:38 pm
Quote from: slalom on December 07, 2019, 10:21:26 pm
Anyone has any idea why this is happening?

Is this system on a domain, a network or getting time from a NTP server?

Does it connect using VPN to another network or domain?

Your modem, router or ISP might also be affecting this. 
Title: Re: GA-X79-UD3 with Intel i7-3930K not keeping time on Win 7 x64
Post by: slalom on December 08, 2019, 07:17:19 pm
It's on a workgroup, a home computer
There are no VPN Connections

Router's time is correct

Is there a setting in BIOS that could be affecting this?
Title: Re: GA-X79-UD3 with Intel i7-3930K not keeping time on Win 7 x64
Post by: slalom on December 20, 2019, 07:23:44 pm
Ok, I found the fix a few days ago

I went into BIOS and noticed the clock was frozen, it should be counting. So I googled "BIOS clock frozen"
One of the results was this page

https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?35490-Sabertooth-Z87-Bios-Clock-Issue

So I did what one guy said

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Re-flash the latest UEFI, and clear CMOS with the board in standby (this will reset the management engine). See if that helps
and it's been working ok for a few days now
Title: Re: GA-X79-UD3 with Intel i7-3930K not keeping time on Win 7 x64
Post by: shadowsports on December 21, 2019, 02:24:44 pm
Greetings,
I want to be sure I understand,

You said you had re-flashed the BIOS in your initial post.  This did not help. 

So essentially, you performed a CLR_CMOS when the system was in standby and after waking the system, the RTC was keeping correct time.

Is that correct?
Title: Re: GA-X79-UD3 with Intel i7-3930K not keeping time on Win 7 x64
Post by: slalom on December 21, 2019, 02:48:53 pm
I re-flashed it a couple of months ago, but as the post said, it needed a CLR_CMOS too. I didn't do that.

The right thing is, re-flash the BIOS and then CLR_CMOS with PSU on (Power supply on but the system off)

And then the BIOS clock was working again