On 3/24/08, Kevin Cummings <cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm playing with an old motherboard of mine. Its an AMD K6-2 500MHz > processor, w/384MB PC-100 SDRam (Max amount). Its running the latest F7 > kernel, and its losing time. Almost 15 seconds / minute (ouch!). This > motherboard used to run my main home server, running on RH9 & FC2 > without any problems with its timekeeping. Now that I'm playing with F7 > on it in a *very* minimal system (few server services, X11, nfs, but no > http, no email, etc) its losing time big-time. Even running ntpd can't > keep up with it. In fact, it re-syncs to the correct time only when I > restart ntpd. > > Anyone have a clue as what's wrong with it? I'm not sure, but perhaps it's caused by the old on-board battery. Andras
