Question Crazy Problem wreaking havoc!

[Charagma]

I have never encountered this in my whole life but need help getting it resolved.

Some of my equipment boots up with my PC. They rely on the BIOS timestamp as a reference point for logging. My software relies on windows time for their respective reference points and logging.

My BIOS time has always (ALWAYS!) been my current local time. Windows used to get my +2 time from their server (I would assume) and the two times would match resulting in no problems between my software and hardware.

As of yesterday (No windows update recently) my hardware and software refuse to communicate due to time errors. When I set my BIOS to local time, windows then adds 2 hours to it. When I set it to 2 hours behind, then windows still add the two hours. This results in having two different times on my PC and creates endless time problems between my hardware and software.

E.g. My MIDI in/out would allocate a timestamp to a file and then export it to my PC. The software would then refuse it since it is a direct export from the hardware with an incorrect timestamp (Time in/out error). This means to get the exported file I need to save it. Then import it on the software side. So yes, it is bypass-able, but how do I fix it to have windows and BIOS to have the same time?

It is a UEFI Bios if that information is important.

 

[Colif]

if windows didn't change anything - did you look in reliability history to see if perhaps the store had installed something - then have you replaced CMOS battery recently?
Windows cannot change BIOS settings directly but applications can alter them once windows is running. These are temporary changes in that BIOS isn't actually changed, windows just says values have.

is the +2 daylight savings or something? time zone?
check your time zone is set right. No idea why it would randomly change otherwise.

try malware scans

 

[Charagma]

Even tried setting the time to manual. Daylight savings is off. As soon as I touch the times anywhere the other changes. I am fully aware my music hardware is outdated (Still runs on Network bootup etc) but it has never been a problem........just suddenly.

Had that virus thing happen to me recently (Last week if I remember correctly), figured it was fixed. Will rerun everything, might still have an ugly hiding on my pc somewhere. Worst case I will reset my windows. Saw it can be done without losing anything.......might be a solution if I do not win.

 

[Charagma]

1 If you haven't already, turn off Set time zone automatically.

2 Open Registry Editor (regedit.exe).

3 If prompted by UAC, click/tap on Yes to approve.

4 Navigate to the key below in the left pane of Registry Editor. (see screenshot below)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation

5 In the right pane of the TimeZoneInformation key, double click/tap on the TimeZoneKeyName string value to modify it. (see screenshot above)

6 Copy and paste the time zone you want to use from the Time zone value data list below, and click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below)

Time zone value data list:

Spoiler: Code

Code:
Afghanistan Standard Time
Alaskan Standard Time
Aleutian Standard Time
Altai Standard Time
Arab Standard Time
Arabian Standard Time
Arabic Standard Time
Argentina Standard Time
Astrakhan Standard Time
Atlantic Standard Time
AUS Central Standard Time
Aus Central W. Standard Time
AUS Eastern Standard Time
Azerbaijan Standard Time
Azores Standard Time
Bahia Standard Time
Bangladesh Standard Time
Belarus Standard Time
Bougainville Standard Time
Canada Central Standard Time
Cape Verde Standard Time
Caucasus Standard Time
Cen. Australia Standard Time
Central America Standard Time
Central Asia Standard Time
Central Brazilian Standard Time
Central Europe Standard Time
Central European Standard Time
Central Pacific Standard Time
Central Standard Time
Central Standard Time (Mexico)
China Standard Time
Cuba Standard Time
Dateline Standard Time
E. Africa Standard Time
E. Australia Standard Time
E. Europe Standard Time
E. South America Standard Time
Easter Island Standard Time
Eastern Standard Time (Mexico)
Eastern Standard Time
Egypt Standard Time
Ekaterinburg Standard Time
Fiji Standard Time
FLE Standard Time
Georgian Standard Time
GMT Standard Time
Greenland Standard Time
Greenwich Standard Time
GTB Standard Time
Haiti Standard Time
Hawaiian Standard Time
India Standard Time
Iran Standard Time
Israel Standard Time
Jordan Standard Time
Kaliningrad Standard Time
Kamchatka Standard Time
Korea Standard Time
Libya Standard Time
Line Islands Standard Time
Lord Howe Standard Time
Magadan Standard Time
Magallanes Standard Time
Marquesas Standard Time
Mauritius Standard Time
Mid-Atlantic Standard Time
Middle East Standard Time
Montevideo Standard Time
Morocco Standard Time
Mountain Standard Time
Mountain Standard Time (Mexico)
Myanmar Standard Time
N. Central Asia Standard Time
Namibia Standard Time
Nepal Standard Time
New Zealand Standard Time
Newfoundland Standard Time
Norfolk Standard Time
North Asia East Standard Time
North Asia Standard Time
North Korea Standard Time
Omsk Standard Time
Pacific SA Standard Time
Pacific Standard Time
Pacific Standard Time (Mexico)
Pakistan Standard Time
Paraguay Standard Time
Qyzylorda Standard Time
Romance Standard Time
Russia Time Zone 3
Russia Time Zone 10
Russia Time Zone 11
Russian Standard Time
SA Eastern Standard Time
SA Pacific Standard Time
SA Western Standard Time
Saint Pierre Standard Time
Sakhalin Standard Time
Samoa Standard Time
Sao Tome Standard Time
SE Asia Standard Time
Singapore Standard Time
South Africa Standard Time
South Sudan Standard Time
Sri Lanka Standard Time
Sudan Standard Time
Syria Standard Time
Taipei Standard Time
Tasmania Standard Time
Tocantins Standard Time
Tokyo Standard Time
Tomsk Standard Time
Tonga Standard Time
Transbaikal Standard Time
Turkey Standard Time
Turks And Caicos Standard Time
Ulaanbaatar Standard Time
US Eastern Standard Time
US Mountain Standard Time
UTC
UTC+12
UTC+13
UTC-02
UTC-08
UTC-09
UTC-11
Venezuela Standard Time
Vladivostok Standard Time
Volgograd Standard Time
W. Australia Standard Time
W. Central Africa Standard Time
W. Europe Standard Time
W. Mongolia Standard Time
West Asia Standard Time
West Bank Standard Time
West Pacific Standard Time
Yakutsk Standard Time
Yukon Standard Time

7 Close Registry Editor.

8 Restart the computer to apply.



This seemed to have fixed it but as soon as I reboot it switches back. Will be doing a system reset busy downloading the 24h2 repair version now.

SFC /scannow finds no errors, Malwarebytes finds nothing either, so seems to be a something somewhere switching it back the whole time............

 

[Colif]

generally, I suggest backing it up before changing anything in registry

4 reasons you should manually backup your Windows Registry (including individual keys)

The Windows Registry is Windows' lifeblood, and it is crucial to back it up regularly before making tweaks. Here's how to do it and why you should.

www.xda-developers.com

 

[Charagma]

Just got off the phone with the Behringer guys. Techy is coming out to see me. Sounds as if there might be a problem on the mixer's bootup sequence. Might not be a PC problem at all!

Will keep you in the loop of things but the salesman already tried to sell me a newer model.......LMAO

 

[Colif]

just doing his job

 

[Charagma]

Well after several hours of the techy visiting me. He got it fixed with the following explanation:

"When the PC boots up, the soundboard sees it and boot up to it via a network card. During this handshake the date and time is synced. It does not care where it gets a time from (Windows or BIOS) as long as it has a timestamp. When the network card is faulty (Which was the problem BTW) it loses the sync time and when re-doing the handshake gets a different time to work with which then conflicts with the original time it had."

The windows time thing was a result of this where windows time got changed to whatever time it got from the network which was whatever +2.

Well, something to that effect, he had many clever words in between. "Arm-and-a-leg" later system its purring like a kitten again and "NO I DID NOT BUY A Behringer wing". Was still cheaper to just fix my old one. Must add he had a wing demo here that I could mess around with while he was working on mine and must admit that I liked it. Might be getting me a 40 channel in the future. 8 additional channels could make a huge difference in my world.

 

[Colif]

Hardware failure at least explains why it suddenly happened without any changes in windows.
Can't say I seen a network card fail like that before but I used to help on Tom's Hardware and in those 10 years I saw all sorts of weird answers, so I guess it was only a matter of time

 

[Charagma]

Wish I could say "yeah or nay" as well. For me pretty much boils down to a yes or no diagram. Is it working yes, follow the line and it goes to "Don't F with it" if no "Phone someone that knows and personally don't F with it" Very simple yet effective diagram.

I will have a look at upgrading some of the equipment next year. I had a few interesting ventures this year that pushed me into a different "side field" in the music industry which has proven to be worth my while. Unfortunately, this means that I will need more up to date equipment "like the Behringer wing" and should probably look at newer software solution as well. but for now, my yes/no diagram points to "Don't F with it" so a little scared doing all the upgrades. Each upgrade (hardware or software) will require re-learning what I know and applying it on the new equipment or software.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bing.com%2F&embeds_referring_origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bing.com&source_ve_path=MTY0OTksMjg2NjQsMTY0NTAz&v=phxSXgY8Hyw&feature=youtu.be


The above is the 48 Channel. I played around with a 40 Channel.