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Sabertooth Z87 - Bios Clock Issue

Krait
Level 7
The basic problem is that the clock in the UEFI bios stops working on a regular basis.

I can remove the battery and it will restart (at least for a day or two) but it always stops again - I've tried 4 different batteries and the longest that the clock continued to work was 8 days.
It's only the clock that doesn't work (at least as far as I know) - all the other bios settings stay the same (except when resetting cmos ofc)
I've tried it at stock and OC'ed and it still persists in stopping, I've also tried using my older PSU (Seasonic 860 xp1) and the same result.

I suppose it's either a bios problem (bios 1205) or a MB fault but if anyone has a suggestion for me to try, in case it's neither of these, it would be most welcome.
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Asus Sabertooth z87 - 4670k - Alpenfohn K2 - Corsair 16gb LP Vengeance - VTX 7970 - Arctic Cooling 7970 - DGM 27" IPS - Crucial 512gb/128gb/64gb M4 - Seagate 2TB - Xigmatek Elysium - Seasonic Platinum 860 XP2
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Oubadah wrote:
Are you waiting for a user to send a board, or has someone already sent one and you just haven't received it yet?


Both. There is a user in the process of sending his board to us in the US (he had something come up which caused a delay on his side) which we will forward to HQ. The user needs to be based in North America for me to be able to setup the swap. AS soon as that completes we can move forwards.

Aleksandr_Iskan
Level 7
Update: I wanted to follow up on the Bios Clock Issue on my ASUS Maximus VI Extreme, it has been 38 days since I updated to the last BIOS (1102), and my UEFI clock is still working well. In my case, it seems that the last BIOS version resolve the problem.

rogerthat1945
Level 7
I am about to buy the Asus Maximus Gene for my backup PC (Athlon 64) and give it an i5), so wondered what the latest situ is on the `clock` issue/s; because on my Z87 Sabertooth rig I had real problems updating to the 1707 Bios. It would take 7 hours to boot-up sometimes. It was a Bios renamer problem or someting. HAd to flashback and forth many times. Its fixed now (problem was locking up as BIOS update was on an older USB drive, NOTE:- YOU HAVE TO USE USB 2 Stick for BIOS updates!!!!!!

I have a permanent solution for all Motherboards/Asus for BIOS Problems; but want paying for the concept which could make Asus an extra million sales here and there (and save a million upset customers over ten years doing Bios Updates).

Any takers?
me @ yahoo

rogerthat1945 wrote:
I am about to buy the Asus Maximus Gene for my backup PC (Athlon 64) and give it an i5), so wondered what the latest situ is on the `clock` issue/s; because on my Z87 Sabertooth rig I had real problems updating to the 1707 Bios. It would take 7 hours to boot-up sometimes. It was a Bios renamer problem or someting. HAd to flashback and forth many times. Its fixed now (problem was locking up as BIOS update was on an older USB drive, NOTE:- YOU HAVE TO USE USB 2 Stick for BIOS updates!!!!!!

I have a permanent solution for all Motherboards/Asus for BIOS Problems; but want paying for the concept which could make Asus an extra million sales here and there (and save a million upset customers over ten years doing Bios Updates).

Any takers?
me @ yahoo


The latest 'situation' is that we're waiting for Asus to fix the issue.

Flegma
Level 10
I have same model of MBO and maybe this is silly question but what is symptoms of frozen clock? Clock is frozen only in BIOS or both, BIOS nad Windows?

I asked this because Windows has Internet Time.
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Flegma wrote:
I have same model of MBO and maybe this is silly question but what is symptoms of frozen clock? Clock is frozen only in BIOS or both, BIOS nad Windows?

I asked this because Windows has Internet Time.


The clock is frozen in the BIOS and then you start to see odd behavior in the Windows clock.

Oubadah wrote:
The clock is frozen in the BIOS and then you start to see odd behavior in the Windows clock.

What odd behavior?
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WD Blue 1TB (EZEX), WD Green 2TB (EARX)

Flegma wrote:
What odd behavior?


I first noticed it one night when I glanced at the time, continued working, then looked down at the time to see that it was still exactly the same. I remember thinking what a long minute, but it was late and I decided I must have been imagining it.

The next day I looked at the clock when it should have been ~11PM and it said 2.00AM. This time I immediately remembered this thread and guessed that the issue must extend beyond the sabertooth. I then looked in the BIOS and sure enough, the clock was static.

While the BIOS clock is frozen, the windows clock seems to fluctuate between being completely wrong and sometimes displaying what seems to be the correct time (I guess it eventually syncs with an internet clock).

hi, I bought a z87-deluxe last week.
I have the same problem. BIOS clock is frozen.
Please fix it.

Problem solved. 🙂 Now I am waiting for ASUS to send me a gift (GTX 780 ti preferable ), and then there will be full description of the process.