A7N8X Gains time daily, any fix for this?

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My A7N8X-UAY MB gains time everyday until about the 4th day it is
around 4 minutes faster than the actual time [then it resynches
automatically].

question: has asus or anyone else ever found a solution to this
problem? I heard someone in another thread say something to the effect
that this board gains something like " 20 seconds per hour", is that
true?

thank you.

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My A7N8X Deluxe Revision 2.0 board does this. I use a freeware program
called "Atomic Clock Sync" to sync the time on a regular basis.

The fact that it gains time has to do with the tolerance of crystals and
capacitors on the motherboard and the values chosen by Asus, which I think
we can see are *off*, and probably off on all of the boards made.

I just had to replace three power supply capacitors on one of the Gigabyte
GA-7VRX motherboards in our office. After looking up this board on various
forums, many other people have had problems with the EXACT same capacitors
on *that* board, with the exact same symptoms (one cap pops open, the other
two bulge).

When products are mass-produced, problems like this do show up as a pattern.
Grrr...
 
I now have two A7N8X-E-Dlx boards. One has the fast clock problem, the
other one does not. What's the difference? Well, I read somewhere that
disabling APIC in the bios can help correct this issue (NOT ACPI, APIC
(advanced programmable interrupt controller?)) I need to re-install windows
on the other machine to see if that "fix" works on the "problem" mb as well.
I never tried installing XP on the second board without disabling APIC to
see if it also has the issue, although everyone I know who has one of these
boards seems to have a fast clock issue. Both boards are running BIOS 1013.

Hope this helps. Unfortunately, the potential "solution" requires an XP
re-install.

DanO
 
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