do i need a new mainboard?

[x583]

Hi,
my computer was loosing 2 hours when i was playing on it the last two weeks. i thought it was the battery cmos, so i changed it,
this week it was loosing time again. this time it went back 3 hours.
do you think i need to get a new mainboard?
its a Asus p4s533.
thanks

 

[o1die]

It's possible. But if you're not using it, it shouldn't hurt anything to run it that way. You can also try a bios flash. I would also disable all devices in the power management section.

 

[Peter]

Is it losing time while on, or while off? The battery and hardware clock are only involved while Off, else it's just a software interrupt that ticks the time forward. If it's the latter, then you got some piece of software running that locks interrupts for extended periods of time, making the machine drop a timer tick once in a while.

 

[pspada]

I had a computer that had the same problem. turned out to be a dos program I was running would go to screen saver mode, and that caused problems for the clock.

But you could just setup a program to check/set the time using one of the atomic clocks available via the internet.

 

[x583]

thanks for the help,
this is what happens .the computer loses time when its on.
and when i was playing a game, so it maybe software your saying,
i'll look in on that.
thanks

 

[Supa]

A work around would be installing one of the free wares that syn the clock online.

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