Frozen Time Clock in UEFI - The Fix

[Raja]

Is your motherboard suffering from the malady of a frozen time clock in UEFI?

If so try the following:

1) Reflash the latest UEFI, using EZ Flash 2 or USB BIOS flashback.

2) When the system POSTs, enter UEFI. Once in UEFI power down the motherboard. Keep the PSU attached and "on". Only the motherboard is powered off and in "standby". You will see the MB standby lights on (boards with start buttons onboard will be lit). Standby does not mean the board is actually running, standby means the board has power, but you have not pressed the power button to turn it on. Make sure the board is off before you go to the next step in this list. You will know if it is off because if you leave it for 5 seconds it should not POST~BOOT - this means it is in standby.



3) Clear CMOS (Clear RTC) for 10 seconds. This will clear the Management Engine.

4) Power up the system, enter UEFI, set the clock and then save and exit.

5) Update MEI driver to Version 9.5.14.1724 in the OS.









6 )Carry on using the system as normal.

The above steps should fix the issue.

-Raja

[Malawi]

I have owned several Asus products before with good results, but have not registered before now. This time I was initialy thinking of buying an MSI card, but apparently it had trouble with it's integrated sound-system. Then I looked at the Maximus VI with it's shiny red line. Apparently I did not do a good enough research, because now i have a MB that cannot keep track of time. 😕

Running latest bios - 1301 that ran nicely for a few days, but I just had to do the reset thingy again.

Please Asus - own up to this instead of throwing garbage into the marketplace.

EDIT: AFAIK my version is the latest one 90MB0FU0-M0EAY5

[PatrickS3]

Same problem here,
try the fix with CMOS reset and latest Bios V 1707 on my Z87 Plus (C2) two weeks ago and MEI driver Version 9.5.14.1724. Works good, but only for two weeks. Since yesterday my problem is back again.
Waiting for a final fix.

Excuse my english please.

Patrick

[Malawi]

Just printed out my RMA 🙂

[Oubadah]

Is there any evidence to suggest that replacing the board can actually fix the issue?

[sharkbyte]

I also have the same issue..fix worked for about 3 weeks..raja if you really want a board stuck in this state pm me....

[Iscariah]

Update:

Just to mention that the simple Clear CMOS trick never worked for me, the issue came back after a couple of hours... BUT since I updated the Intel ME with the 1,5Mb firmware (link in my previous post on page 8, or http://www.station-drivers.com/index.php/forum/news/363-intel-management-engine-fw-9-0-31-1487), no more clock freeze, it's now been more than 2 weeks!

Just give it a try... So far I'm not disappointed! If the freeze comes back I'll post again, but so far, so good.

[GregH]

Hi Iscariah,

Don't kid yourself.... your frozen clock will be back sooner than you think. The Intel ME driver update does not solve the problem. Many have tried it including myself. 3 weeks is about when you can expect then next re-occurrence.... This is an ASUS BIOS issue not a Windows or Intel issue. Think about it - if it was, all MB brands would have issues. Either these boards are genuinely defective or a software/firmware update is needed to correct buggy programming for the board.

By the way, we are onto page 9 in this thread and there is still no acknowledgement by ASUS that there is a problem.

[Iscariah]

But that's exactly what I say: I updated the Intel ME FIRMWARE, and since then, seems to be fixed!

[Iscariah]

GregH wrote:
Hi Iscariah,

Don't kid yourself.... your frozen clock will be back sooner than you think. The Intel ME driver update does not solve the problem. Many have tried it including myself. 3 weeks is about when you can expect then next re-occurrence.... This is an ASUS BIOS issue not a Windows or Intel issue. Think about it - if it was, all MB brands would have issues. Either these boards are genuinely defective or a software/firmware update is needed to correct buggy programming for the board.

By the way, we are onto page 9 in this thread and there is still no acknowledgement by ASUS that there is a problem.

Bu that's what I say: I updated the Intel ME FIRMWARE (and the drivers afterwards, of course), and it seems to be fixed!

[BoneCrusher]

Iscariah wrote:
Bu that's what I say: I updated the Intel ME FIRMWARE (and the drivers afterwards, of course), and it seems to be fixed!

How did you update the ME firmware?? Within windows?? I cant get it to work in W8.1, even running cmd as admin.

Nevermind i fixed it! 😄