Re: system clock misbehaving

[Benham Family <pique netspace net au>]

On Thursday 01 June 2006 05:11, Craig Goodyear wrote:
> 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.

I do have Nvidia nForce2 so I'll give it a try.

Thanks,
Tim