system clock misbehaving

[Craig Goodyear]

Benham Family wrote:
> Odd. Since updating my FC4 system's kernel a few days ago my system clock has 
> been gaining time like mad.
> 
> cheers,
> Tim
> 

When I installed FC5, the clock began gaining a lot using the 2.6.16 
kernels. I had no clock problems with FC4 using the kernels prior to 
2.6.16.  I found the problem to be my motherboard / chipset.  I am using 
a MSI K7N2 motherboard with Nvidia nForce2 chipset.  I found by 
disabling the FSB spread spectrum in the BIOS, the problem went away. 
If you have a Nvidia nForce2 chipset, you may want to test this work around.

Craig