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