On Thursday 01 June 2006 06:03, Benham Family wrote: > 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. Yes, that worked. Well, sort of. ntpd never settles down (it's still querying the ntp server once a second a day after rebooting), but it does now keep my system clock accurate. cheers, Tim
