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

[robotzombie]

I'm having the problem, never overclocked anything.

Is there any permanent solution to this yet?

[karl_azytzeen]

Does later updates of the MEI software work with fix/workaround?

In the download section can be found MEI_V11.0.0.1155_20150709_WHQL_1.5M

Txs

[Bricolage]

Not sure if I'm having the same issue as everyone else, but the Clock in Windows (and in the Bios) is set back by 2 hours every 2-3 days. It's always these two hours (e.g. 18.00h instead of 20.00h), date and other Bios settings stay correct. I'm on a Maximus Impact VII with the latest Bios (2801) but had this problem since months and with every BIOS I've tried. Tried the fix with new installation of Bios + CMOS reset in standby, tried replacing the battery, tried other suggestions I found - no results at all.

This is just very frustrating and I would love to RMA this expensive board. But I've modded a heatsink on the power delivery PCB to fit a large cooler (cut off two edges of the PCBs heatsink to make room for heatpipes). So I assume this is voiding my warranty, even though it's most definitely not the cause of my BIOS/clock problem.

[Ironside]

Still no fix for this?

Loosing faith..

[GregH]

Um guys, as you may have noticed, ASUS released this board two and a half years ago. Right from the outset, people including myself were complaining about this. The most recent BIOS update (which was a while ago) seemed to improve things marginally but not eliminate it. The clock will still freeze from time to time. Seems to have been aggravated by the latest "Nov update" of Windows. But that's just my opinion.

What is not opinion is that ASUS boards are overrated and the fact that they refuse to acknowledge their inferior and faulty product means that the HeroVI will be the last ASUS mother board I ever buy. My two most recent PC's are running high end MSI boards and I could not be happier.

Face facts people, after 2.5 years there is no fix coming. ASUS stopped support for this board. You, like me, are on your own my friends. You purchased an inferior product. Live with it or change brands.

[desolator4u]

When I originally purchased this board, the previous owner said he had to deal with the time freezing at random. I have a Maximus VI Hero Z87 which has NEVER experienced this problem for the 2.5 years now that i've owned it.
I flashed the BIOS when I got it to 1002. I have been in the UEFI repeatedly overclocking it and altering tons of settings and still the time has never frozen. I am playing around with 4.4GHz now.
It really isn't clear what causes this problem. The only difference for me is i've running Windows 7 SP1 with Updates disabled, but I doubt the OS would cause this.