Motherboard RTC (Clock) Running Fast

[ComputerWizKid]

I normally don't care about the system time on the BIOS/CMOS/Windows but the clock in my HTPC is constantly about 3-4 Minutes fast and that means my recording Schedule is getting messed up. I have been compensating for it by padding my SageTV recordings but that is getting old and does not always work(Especially for back to back recordings) and I am looking for a real solution

My HTPC Specs are as follows
GA-73PVM-S2H
E2200
2 X 1GB of DDR-II 800
Seagate 500GB SATA 7200.10
Lite-On SOHR-5238S
NEC ND-3550A
Hauppauge HVR-1800 OEM Whitebox
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit
MCE Remote Receiver but I am using a Harmony remote with it
SageTV V6
Cheap Generic PSU (20 Pin) until I get my Antec Earthwatts EA-430 from the 'Egg on Monday

I have a program I am using to sync the time with the NTP time servers called Dimension 4 and I have it set to do sync every 15 Minutes and when it does sync it almost always is subtracting about 4 minutes from the system clock each time so I need suggestions on things to check/do I am not using the Windows Time server Sync option as that will only do it every couple of days and by then I will have gained about 20-25 Minutes

I remember this happening on my SKT 939 MB years ago (Nforce 4 Asus A8N-E) so is this a chipset problem? or a motherboard problem? I need this to be fixed ASAP
I have another Gigabyte board I am using (GA-G31M-S2L) and that does not have the problem and that used to be my HTPC a couple of years ago and it worked fine
Thanks

 

[heymrdj]

I normally don't care about the system time on the BIOS/CMOS/Windows but the clock in my HTPC is constantly about 3-4 Minutes fast and that means my recording Schedule is getting messed up. I have been compensating for it by padding my SageTV recordings but that is getting old and does not always work(Especially for back to back recordings) and I am looking for a real solution

My HTPC Specs are as follows
GA-73PVM-S2H
E2200
2 X 1GB of DDR-II 800
Seagate 500GB SATA 7200.10
Lite-On SOHR-5238S
NEC ND-3550A
Hauppauge HVR-1800 OEM Whitebox
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit
MCE Remote Receiver but I am using a Harmony remote with it
SageTV V6
Cheap Generic PSU (20 Pin) until I get my Antec Earthwatts EA-430 from the 'Egg on Monday

I have a program I am using to sync the time with the NTP time servers called Dimension 4 and I have it set to do sync every 15 Minutes and when it does sync it almost always is subtracting about 4 minutes from the system clock each time so I need suggestions on things to check/do I am not using the Windows Time server Sync option as that will only do it every couple of days and by then I will have gained about 20-25 Minutes

I remember this happening on my SKT 939 MB years ago (Nforce 4 Asus A8N-E) so is this a chipset problem? or a motherboard problem? I need this to be fixed ASAP
I have another Gigabyte board I am using (GA-G31M-S2L) and that does not have the problem and that used to be my HTPC a couple of years ago and it worked fine
Thanks

If it's subtracting 4 minutes every 15 minutes, that would suggest that your motherboard's time is just set too high. If it was actually fast, your board would be be 16 minutes later every hour.

Check your motherboards time in the BIOS, you might have it set higher than the real time.

 

[ComputerWizKid]

I never thought to check the BIOS Clock but it was the problem and all is well now I always thought Windows Changed the clock from the BIOS and not just taking time from it (I thought the OS had the power to change the BIOS clock to what the OS time said but I was wrong)

 

[heymrdj]

I never thought to check the BIOS Clock but it was the problem and all is well now I always thought Windows Changed the clock from the BIOS and not just taking time from it (I thought the OS had the power to change the BIOS clock to what the OS time said but I was wrong)

Nope it's the other way around. The BIOS is your standard time and the OS changes it from there if it's not using an NTP server (as in your sync's every 15 minutes).

Glad to hear that works for you ^_^.