system clock misbehaving

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 31/05/06, Craig Goodyear <cjhs22a at swbell.net> wrote:
> 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.

Have you filed a bug report about this? It would help other users if
you did so, as it would hopefully get fixed upstream.

Jonathan