WX6 losing one hour every 24 with Windows 98

[Mike Byrns]

Hi,

I just built a WX6-based PC for my Dad with a SmartLink HAMR 5600 AMR Modem,
64MB PC100 SDRAM and a Celeron 366A @ 550. It works flawlessly except for
one thing. The PC's clock "loses" about one hour every day. This is no big
deal really since I could install a clock synchronizer application to fix
the error whenever he goes online but I am interested to know what might be
causing this. This is the second time I've heard of this problem (my bosses
computer did this too under Windows 98) and I would realy like to fix it
this time. So far I've removed the modem, run the Celeron at 366 and tested
the onboard CMOS battery voltage. I really think I got a bad board and the
RTC is bad. What do you think?

Mike Byrns

[Nathan Bloy]

my bx6 rev 2 has just started this wierd behavior for some unknown reason
too and its driving me mad i have the NW bios

[Mike Byrns]

Seems this behavior is more widespread than just the WX6 then. Can anyone
shed some light on this problem? ABIT folks? Anyone?
"Nathan Bloy" <n...@bloyn.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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[xrongor]

i have a bx6 rev 1 and it started doing a similar thing. it's not "losing"
time as per say, like where i notice say 5 minutes per hour lost. instead,
its perfect, perfect, perfect, then the next time i look its exactly one
hour behind. seems to happen once or twice a week. very annoying. ive
looked for patterns, and still have none. but i am suspicious of one
thing... are you people running nav 2000? it may be coincidence, but it
seems to have started around the same time i installed it.

randy

[Mike Byrns]

So this appears to be a Windows 98 issue rather than a mobo issue. I'll
comb the Microsloth site and post anything I find. Thanks all!

"Keefer" <kedg...@att.net> wrote in message
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> Well...
>
> I have Win98SE installed on my P3/550 (Abit BE6) and on my P2/266
> (some older board), and once every two or so weeks (not at the same
> time, of course), both PC's lose an hour. They are on continuously.
> So I'm wondering if it could be a power-management-related issue (even
> though I have it disabled, who knows what Windows does while we
> sleep?)
>
> If anyone has any clues, I'd be happy to hear them.
>
> Keefer

>
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2000 16:13:49 -0600, "Mike Byrns"
> <mike....@technologist.com> wrote:
>
> >Seems this behavior is more widespread than just the WX6 then. Can
anyone
> >shed some light on this problem? ABIT folks? Anyone?

[Keefer]